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firewall-cmd ends up with traceback when used without parameters and the dbus listening firewalld service is not up

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

firewalld-1.3.4

firewalld-2.1.3

firewalld-2.2.1


rhel9,rhel10,fedora40

How reproducible is this bug?:

Steps to reproduce

systemctl stop firewalld

firewall-cmd

Expected results

firewall-cmd # this is output when service is running
State: running # should be different when it's stopped

No options specified
usage: 'firewall-cmd --help' for usage information or see firewall-cmd(1) man page

Actual results

$ firewall-cmd --state

not running

$ firewall-cmd
Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/firewall/client.py", line 46, in _impl
   return func(*args, **kwargs)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/firewall/client.py", line 3527, in get_property
   return dbus_to_python(self.fw_properties.Get(config.dbus.DBUS_INTERFACE, prop))
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'Get'