Ansible fails to pass a simple shell command to an AIX server : error message "SyntaxError: invalid syntax\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE"

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Hello there,
I have the following error message when I run a simple playbook with (“ls -l” shell a command). Could help me to find out what is wrong here ?
Below is the debug error message :

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************

<192.168.14.224> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: cissys

<192.168.14.224> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ‘IdentityFile=“/home/vagrant/.ssh/id_rsa.cobolDeploy”’ -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=cissys -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/vagrant/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt 192.168.14.224 ‘( umask 22 && mkdir -p “$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754 )” && echo “$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754 )” )’

<192.168.14.224> PUT /tmp/tmp_FdaTK TO /home/cissys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754/setup

<192.168.14.224> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -C -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ‘IdentityFile=“/home/vagrant/.ssh/id_rsa.cobolDeploy”’ -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=cissys -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/vagrant/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[192.168.14.224]’

<192.168.14.224> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: cissys

<192.168.14.224> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ‘IdentityFile=“/home/vagrant/.ssh/id_rsa.cobolDeploy”’ -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=cissys -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/vagrant/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt 192.168.14.224 ‘LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/usr/bin/python:$PATH python /home/cissys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754/setup; rm -rf “/home/cissys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754/” > /dev/null 2>&1’

fatal: [192.168.14.224]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “invocation”: {“module_name”: “setup”}, “module_stderr”: “OpenSSH_6.9p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu0.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2455\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\nShared connection to 192.168.14.224 closed.\r\n”, “module_stdout”: " File "/home/cissys/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454436132.22-153236961992754/setup", line 3160\r\n except OSError, e:\r\n ^\r\nSyntaxError: invalid syntax\r\n", “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE”, “parsed”: false}

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That error is due to the playbook running the setup module during the gather facts step and not having python2 available at /use/bin/Python but instead having python3.

If you are just trying to run script without running setup, add gather_facts: false to your play definition.

Otherwise you will need to ensure python2 is installed and that you provide its path via ansible_python_interpreter.