[Ansible to Windows] IndexError: tuple index out of range

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Hi All,

I am a very newbie to Ansible. I am running Ansible 1.8-dev from source (Tried 1.7.1 from pip as well)

I wanted to control windows machine So I setuped the workstation (Centos 6.3) followed steps on http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html

Below is what I got:

[root@ansible-test-1 ~]# ansible windows -i ~/hosts -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv
Vault password:
<15.126.222.251> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: Administrator on PORT 5986 TO 15.126.222.251
<15.126.222.251> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=https://15.126.222.251:5986/wsman
15.126.222.251 | FAILED => Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 566, in _executor
exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 678, in _executor_internal
return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 849, in _executor_internal_inner
conn = self.connector.connect(actual_host, actual_port, actual_user, actual_pass, actual_transport, actual_private_key_file)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 44, in connect
self.active = conn.connect()
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 132, in connect
self.protocol = self._winrm_connect()
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 90, in _winrm_connect
err_msg = str(exc.args[0])
IndexError: tuple index out of range

Any advices? Really appreciated that.

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I am experiencing the same issue.

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This is probably the same issue as what is mentioned at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8720

However, without the traceback in the issue I am unsure.

The specific traceback that you are seeing, is masking the real issue. The real issue likely occurred earlier causing the initial WinRMTransportError exception to be raised.

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I found this issue started happening to me after this update of pywinrm: https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/tree/7ab74a4b8fbeb2af707c5628703c485f8d14238d

So, I started using an earlier version:
pip install https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/archive/df049454a9309280866e0156805ccda12d71c93a.zip

Joe

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Any thoughts on this Chris?

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The IndexError traceback was fixed by https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/07f12539eee2faac5fe831cd31f1f0a5d3e7e661, and I just pushed a fix for running windows modules from playbooks (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/57dee4545b3c34d1e66943def8d5e45ee95d66bd).

The winrm integration tests are working for me now using ansible@devel and pywinrm@master.

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uninstalling pywinrm & installing old version do the trick. problem solved. Thanks.

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Thanks Chris!