ErrorNotes

🔧 Ansible Errors

41 error notes

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ansiblebeginner

Fixing the 'ansible_distribution is undefined' Error in Ansible Playbooks

The conditional check failed. The error was: 'ansible_distribution' is undefined
gather_factsansible-troubleshootingansible_distributiondevops-performance
ansiblebeginner

Fix: Ansible 'json_query' filter requires 'jmespath' to be installed on the Ansible controller

The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'json_query' filter requires 'jmespath' to be installed on the Ansible controller
ansiblejmespathjson_querydevops
ansibleintermediate

Solving Ansible's 'NoneType is not iterable' Error in Conditional Checks

The conditional check 'item in some_var' failed. The error was: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable
ansiblejinja2devopstroubleshooting
ansibleintermediate

Fixing Ansible's 'sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo' Error

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
ansiblesudobecometty
ansiblebeginner

Fixing the Ansible 'REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED' SSH Error

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
ansiblesshknown_hostsdevops
ansiblebeginner

Fix 'Permission denied (publickey)' SSH Error in Ansible When Connecting to Remote Hosts

Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)
sshpublickeyauthenticationprivate-key
ansiblebeginner

How to Fix the Ansible 'No package matching' Error

No package matching 'nginx' is available
ansibledevopslinuxapt
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible apt Module Failing with 'dpkg was interrupted' on Ubuntu/Debian

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
ansibleaptdpkgubuntu
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible 'Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory' When Using systemd Module in Containers

Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
ansiblesystemddbusdocker
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible 'SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host' When SSH Connection Drops Mid-Run

fatal: [host]: FAILED! => {"msg": "SSH Error: data could not be sent to the remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh"}
ansiblesshconnectionnetwork
ansiblebeginner

Fix 'ERROR! conflicting action statements: copy, template' in Ansible Tasks

ERROR! conflicting action statements: copy, template
taskmodulesyntaxplaybook
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible WinRM SSL Error: HTTPSConnectionPool Max Retries Exceeded on Port 5986

fatal: [win_host]: UNREACHABLE! => {"msg": "ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='192.168.1.10', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman"}
ansiblewinrmwindowsssl
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible Async Task Timeout: "Timeout waiting for async task" and async_status Not Returning Results

FAILED! => {"msg": "Timeout (30s) waiting for async task to finish", "finished": 0, "started": 1}
asyncasync_statustimeoutpoll
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible "Failed to create temporary directory" on Remote Host

Failed to create temporary directory. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Please make sure your login shell is set correctly for your user and the environment is configured properly.
ansibletmppermissionsremote
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible Ignoring ansible.cfg in World-Writable Directory

Ansible is being run in a world writable directory (/path/to/dir), ignoring it as an ansible.cfg source. For more information see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/config.html#cfg-in-world-writable-dir
ansible-cfgpermissionsworld-writableconfiguration
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible "no action detected in task" Error — Misspelled Module Name in Playbook

ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
moduleplaybooktypoyaml
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible 'The loop variable item is already in use' Error in Nested Loops

The loop variable 'item' is already in use. You should set the `loop_var` value in the `loop_control` option for the task to something different to avoid this error.
ansiblelooploop_controlloop_var
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible 'this task has extra params' Error: Free-Form Module Syntax Mistake

ERROR! this task 'copy' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules: raw, meta, include, include_tasks, import_tasks
ansiblemodulesyntaxfree-form
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible 'item is a string and cannot be compared to an integer' in when Conditions

The conditional check 'item > 5' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (item > 5): 'item' is a string and cannot be compared to an integer
ansiblejinja2variablestype-error
ansibleintermediate

Fixing the Ansible 'dict object has no attribute rc' Error in Skipped Tasks

The conditional check 'result.rc == 0' failed. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'rc'
registerwhenconditionalskip
ansibleintermediate

Fixing Ansible's 'Role Not Found' Error After a Galaxy Install

ERROR! the role 'geerlingguy.nginx' was not found in /etc/ansible/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles
ansible-galaxyansible-rolesrequirements.ymldevops-troubleshooting
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible "The requested handler was not found" Error When Using notify

ERROR! The requested handler 'restart nginx' was not found in either the main handlers list nor in the listening handlers list
ansiblehandlernotifyplaybook
ansiblebeginner

Fixing the Ansible Error: couldn't resolve module/action 'community.general.docker_container'

ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.general.docker_container'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.
ansibledevopsdockeransible-galaxy
ansiblebeginner

Fixing Jinja2 'template error while templating string' in Ansible

AnsibleError: template error while templating string: expected token ':', got '}'. String: {{ myvar }
ansiblejinja2templatevariable
ansiblebeginner

Fixing 'Could not find or access tasks file' in Ansible Roles

ERROR! Could not find or access '/path/to/tasks/setup.yml' on the Ansible Controller.
include_tasksimport_tasksrolesansible-error
ansiblebeginner

Fixing Ansible's 'Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend' Error

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
ansibleaptubuntudebian
ansiblebeginner

Fix "vault password file not found" Error in Ansible Vault

ERROR! The vault password file /path/to/.vault_pass was not found or is not readable
ansibleansible-vaultsecuritydevops
ansiblebeginner

Fixing the Ansible 'No inventory was parsed' Error

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern
ansibleinventorydevopstroubleshooting
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible Error: "Aborting, target uses selinux but python bindings (libselinux-python) are not installed!"

Aborting, target uses selinux but python bindings (libselinux-python) are not installed!
ansibleselinuxpythonrhel
ansiblebeginner

Fixing Ansible Error: 'Host key verification failed'

fatal: [host]: UNREACHABLE! => {"msg": "Host key verification failed."}
ansiblesshdevopslinux-administration
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible Error: /usr/bin/python: not found on Remote Host

fatal: [192.168.1.10]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "/usr/bin/python: not found", "rc": 127}
pythonansible_python_interpreterinterpreterpython3
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible "Could not match supplied host pattern" — No Hosts Matched in Inventory

[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: webservers [WARNING]: No hosts matched, nothing to do
ansibleinventoryhostspattern
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible "Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt" with become

Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt
ansiblebecomesudoprivilege-escalation
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible "Could not find or access 'templates/nginx.conf.j2'" Error

fatal: [host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not find or access 'templates/nginx.conf.j2' on the Ansible Controller."}
templatejinja2j2roles
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible '[Errno 2] No such file or directory' on Remote Hosts

Errno 2: No such file or directory on remote host
ansiblecommandpathremote
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible "ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action" — Module Not Found

ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action
ansiblemodulecollectionplugin
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible 'Missing sudo password' Error (fatal: FAILED! msg: Missing sudo password)

fatal: [host]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Missing sudo password"}
ansiblesudobecomepermission
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible Vault "Decryption failed (no vault secrets would decrypt)" Error

ERROR! Decryption failed (no vault secrets would decrypt) on /path/to/vars/vault.yml
ansible-vaultencryptionsecretsvault-password
ansiblebeginner

Fix Ansible YAML Syntax Error: mapping values are not allowed in this context

ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each: YAML: mapping values are not allowed in this context
ansibleyamlsyntaxindentation
ansiblebeginner

Fix AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'variable_name' is undefined

AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'variable_name' is undefined
ansiblevariablejinja2template
ansibleintermediate

Fix Ansible UNREACHABLE! Host Connection Error

fatal: [host]: UNREACHABLE!
ansiblesshconnectioninventory