What were you trying to do that didn't work?

• Boot system

What is the impact of this issue to you?

• irqbalance service fails to start

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

• RHEL-9.5

How reproducible is this bug?:

• 100%

Steps to reproduce

1. Boot system
2. Check syslog and/or status of irqbalance service

Expected results

• No error message
• irqbalance service starts successfully

Actual results

• Error message is seen
• irqbalance service fails to start

Installed version of irqbalance is 2:1.9.4-1.el9

Seems related to:
 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952715

 * https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/182