Hi,
When I am trying to run ansible job from my host computer to remote server it fails with the following error logs -
`
<127.0.0.12> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: ansibleuser
<127.0.0.12> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d47 ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ‘User=“ansibleuser”’ -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/Users/hostuser/.ansible/cp/0ac5f07217 127.0.0.12 ‘/bin/sh -c ‘"’"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp”&& mkdir /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 && echo ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275=“echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’
<127.0.0.12> (1, b’\x1b(B\x1b[m’, b’OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *\r\ndebug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 127.0.0.12 is address\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 = 95817\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\n/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token (\'\n/bin/sh: -c: line 0: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p “echo \x1b(B\x1b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp”&& mkdir \x1b(B\x1b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 && echo ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275=“echo \x1b(B\x1b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275” ) && sleep 0'\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 1\r\n’)
<127.0.0.12> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 127.0.0.12 is address
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4
debug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote
debug3: mux_client_request_session: entering
debug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering
debug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 95817
debug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(’
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p " echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp "&& mkdir /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 && echo ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275=" echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 `" ) && sleep 0’
debug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe
debug2: Received exit status from master 1
fatal: [127.0.0.12]: UNREACHABLE! => {
“changed”: false,
“msg”: “Failed to create temporary directory.In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp", for more error information use -vvv. Failed command was: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p "echo \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp"&& mkdir \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 && echo ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275="echo \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275" ), exited with result 1, stdout output: \u001b(B\u001b[m, stderr output: OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: /Users/hostuser/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *\r\ndebug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 127.0.0.12 is address\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 = 95817\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\n/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token ('\n/bin/sh: -c: line 0: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p "echo \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp"&& mkdir \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275 && echo ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275="echo \u001b(B\u001b[m/home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593435394.159632-95806-14486735064275" ) && sleep 0’\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 1\r\n”,
“unreachable”: true
}
`
The remote server is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago). I am able to run the command after SSH to the instance as ansibleuser -
/bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p " echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp "&& mkdir /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593432831.36716-94271-191330807976780 && echo ansible-tmp-1593432831.36716-94271-191330807976780=" echo /home/ansibleuser/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1593432831.36716-94271-191330807976780 `" ) && sleep 0’
`
But it fails when ansible tries to run it. /bin/sh is a soft link to /bin/bash. Any suggestions what might be causing the issue