Ansible run ends up with MODULE FAILURE

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I am unable to figure out anymore on this as there's no way that I know of to get a "real" error message out of ansible. I run the below

$ ansible -i /opt/ansible/ec2.py "tag_Function_app:&tag_Application_pro:&tag_Environment_pqa"   --private-key=~/.ssh/id_root_rsa -m shell --sudo -a "service httpd restart" -u root

But end up with a very nondescript error

10.221.142.0 | FAILED | rc=0 >>
MODULE FAILURE

What is exactly going on? Is there a way for me to further debug this? Trying to ssh strictly with the user / sshkey works fine?

Best Answer

This error also occurs when Python 2.x is not installed in /usr/bin/python. E.g. on Ubuntu 16.04 you have to install it:

sudo apt -y update && sudo apt install -y python-minimal

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- name: print to stdout
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  register: hello

- debug: msg="{{ hello.stdout }}"

- debug: msg="{{ hello.stderr }}"

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There isn't a way to do what you want natively in Ansible. You can do this as a workaround:

ansible-playbook ... | sed 's/\\n/\n/g'

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