# \[2.0\]  tracebacks with no information?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-0-tracebacks-with-no-information/20470>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-0-tracebacks-with-no-information/20470 "2016-02-05T23:19:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Levitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Jason\_Levitt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_Levitt)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-0-tracebacks-with-no-information/20470/1 "2016-02-05T23:19:45Z")

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Ansible 2.0

I’ve got a fairly large hierarchy of nested Ansible scripts.  
When I run the main playbook:

$ ansible-playbook -vvvv build.yml

I get this giant traceback which contains, as far as I can see, no specific information about where in _my_ code there  
is an issue. Am I missing something here?

`  
$ ansible-playbook -vvvv build.yml

Using …/config/ansible.cfg as config file  
Unexpected Exception: error while splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes  
the full traceback was:

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 85, in   
sys.exit(cli.run())  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py”, line 150, in run  
results = pbex.run()  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook\_executor.py”, line 79, in run  
pb = Playbook.load(playbook\_path, variable\_manager=self.\_variable\_manager, loader=self.\_loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/ **init**.py”, line 52, in load  
pb.\_load\_playbook\_data(file\_name=file\_name, variable\_manager=variable\_manager)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/ **init**.py”, line 86, in \_load\_playbook\_data  
pb = PlaybookInclude.load(entry, basedir=self.\_basedir, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=self.\_loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/playbook\_include.py”, line 42, in load  
return PlaybookInclude().load\_data(ds=data, basedir=basedir, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/playbook\_include.py”, line 73, in load\_data  
pb.\_load\_playbook\_data(file\_name=file\_name, variable\_manager=variable\_manager)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/ **init**.py”, line 92, in \_load\_playbook\_data  
entry\_obj = Play.load(entry, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=self.\_loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/play.py”, line 109, in load  
return p.load\_data(data, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/base.py”, line 200, in load\_data  
self.\_attributes[name] = method(name, ds[name])  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/play.py”, line 161, in \_load\_tasks  
return load\_list\_of\_blocks(ds=ds, play=self, variable\_manager=self.\_variable\_manager, loader=self.\_loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/helpers.py”, line 50, in load\_list\_of\_blocks  
loader=loader  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/block.py”, line 75, in load  
return b.load\_data(data, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/base.py”, line 200, in load\_data  
self.\_attributes[name] = method(name, ds[name])  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/block.py”, line 111, in \_load\_block  
use\_handlers=self.\_use\_handlers,  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/helpers.py”, line 97, in load\_list\_of\_tasks  
t = Task.load(task, block=block, role=role, task\_include=task\_include, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/task.py”, line 132, in load  
return t.load\_data(data, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, loader=loader)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/base.py”, line 189, in load\_data  
ds = self.preprocess\_data(ds)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/task.py”, line 171, in preprocess\_data  
(action, args, delegate\_to) = args\_parser.parse()  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/mod\_args.py”, line 290, in parse  
action, args = self.\_normalize\_parameters(value, action=action, additional\_args=additional\_args)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/mod\_args.py”, line 156, in \_normalize\_parameters  
args = self.\_normalize\_old\_style\_args(thing, action)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/mod\_args.py”, line 200, in \_normalize\_old\_style\_args  
args = parse\_kv(thing, check\_raw=check\_raw)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/splitter.py”, line 60, in parse\_kv  
vargs = split\_args(args)  
File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/splitter.py”, line 259, in split\_args  
raise Exception(“error while splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes”)  
Exception: error while splitting arguments, either an unbalanced jinja2 block or quotes  
$  
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/2-0-tracebacks-with-no-information/20470/2 "2016-02-06T04:32:00Z")

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you seem to have found a bug, you should open a github issue (please  
use the template) and give as simple as possible way to reproduce it.