# ansible\_hosts issue with 2.9.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [January 7, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-issue-with-2-9-2/31925 "2020-01-07T19:14:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Meyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Andrew\_Meyer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_Meyer1)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-issue-with-2-9-2/31925/1 "2020-01-07T19:14:30Z")
Hello, I recently have installed ansible 2.9.2 from pip3 on CentOS 8. Prior to that I was on whatever came from EPEL. Right now I am having an issue no matter what playbook I run. This is my output on just about any playbook I run. ` [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ansible-playbook deploy\_grafana.yml -e ‘target\_servers=[mon01.asm.example.com](http://mon01.asm.example.com)’ -vvvvv ansible-playbook 2.9.2 config file = None configured module search path = [‘/home/andrew/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’] ansible python module location = /home/andrew/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible executable location = /home/andrew/.local/bin/ansible-playbook python version = 3.6.8 (default, Oct 7 2019, 17:58:22) [GCC 8.2.1 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)] No config file found; using defaults setting up inventory plugins host\_list declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user script declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method auto declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user yaml declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user ini declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user toml declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify\_file() method [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’ Loading callback plugin default of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/andrew/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py PLAYBOOK: deploy\_grafana.yml \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Positional arguments: deploy\_grafana.yml verbosity: 5 connection: smart timeout: 10 become\_method: sudo tags: (‘all’,) inventory: (‘/etc/ansible/hosts’,) extra\_vars: (‘target\_servers=[mon01.asm.example.com](http://mon01.asm.example.com)’,) forks: 5 1 plays in deploy\_grafana.yml [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: [mon01.asm.example.com](http://mon01.asm.example.com) PLAY [[mon01.asm.example.com](http://mon01.asm.example.com)] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* skipping: no hosts matched PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ` I have verified with ansible-config that the config is showing up. ` [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ansible-config dump -c …/ansible.cfg |grep -i hosts DEFAULT\_HOST\_LIST(/home/andrew/automation/ansible/ansible.cfg) = [‘/home/andrew/automation/ansible/hosts/ansible\_hosts’] DISPLAY\_SKIPPED\_HOSTS(default) = True [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ` Should I file a bug? The ansible.cfg is in my ~/automation/ansible/ ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts-issue-with-2-9-2/31925/2 "2020-01-07T19:58:33Z")
> [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ansible-playbook deploy\_grafana.yml -e > 'target\_servers=mon01.asm.example.com' -vvvvv > ansible-playbook 2.9.2 >    config file = None So it doesn't find any config file aka ansible.cfg >    configured module search path = ['/home/andrew/.ansible/plugins/modules', > '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] >    ansible python module location = > /home/andrew/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible >    executable location = /home/andrew/.local/bin/ansible-playbook >    python version = 3.6.8 (default, Oct 7 2019, 17:58:22) [GCC 8.2.1 > 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)] > No config file found; using defaults so default configuration is used. > I have verified with ansible-config that the config is showing up. > > [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ ansible-config dump -c ../ansible.cfg |grep -i If show because you say where it is with -c But ansible-playbook doesn't know that. > hosts > DEFAULT\_HOST\_LIST(/home/andrew/automation/ansible/ansible.cfg) = > ['/home/andrew/automation/ansible/hosts/ansible\_hosts'] > DISPLAY\_SKIPPED\_HOSTS(default) = True > [andrew@jump01 playbooks]$ > > Should I file a bug? > > The ansible.cfg is in my ~/automation/ansible/ But you are in a different directory that ansible.cfg. ansible is only looking in four places an use the first one it finds. [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference\_appendices/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings-locations](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings-locations) - ANSIBLE\_CONFIG (environment variable if set) - ansible.cfg (in the current directory) - ~/.ansible.cfg (in the home directory) - /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg So you need to adjust accordingly.