Ansible yum module unable to find certain packages

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My playbook that installs some generic applications on all of my servers:

`

  • name: Install base applications
    yum: name={{ item }} state=present
    with_items:
  • epel-release
  • vim-enhanced
  • gcc
  • wget
  • libsemanage-python
  • policycoreutils-python
  • setroubleshoot
  • tmux
    `

I get an error message for each of the following packages:
`
“msg”: “No package matching ‘libsemanage-python’ found available, installed or updated”, “rc”: 126

“msg”: “No package matching ‘policycoreutils-python’ found available, installed or updated”, “rc”: 126

“msg”: “No package matching 'setroubleshoot found available, installed or updated”, “rc”: 126

“msg”: “No package matching ‘tmux’ found available, installed or updated”, “rc”: 126
`

If I remove those packages from the item list, the install goes through fine.

I have also verified that if I manually run the following command on the remote server, it exists
yum install libsemanage-python policycoreutils-python setroubleshoot tmux

If I remove the package from the item list and install it individually, it will work:
`

  • name: Install libsemanage-python
    yum: name=libsemanage-python state=present
    `

Has anyone run into a similar scenario and figured out why it is causing this?

2

I’m afraid I can’t reproduce this on a CentOS 7 vm running in virtualbox. Are you using RedHat? If so, which version?

The playbook I used for reference, along with the results.

`

(duchess) [duchess@centos:jeffrey-wen] cat yum.yml

3

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)

4

I have confirmed that this does work on CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

However, it does not work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)

5

I have not yet had time to set up a test bed for this, but I’m planning on doing that today so I’ll update you with my results.

6

I can reproduce this error on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 Maipo vm.

`

(duchess) [duchess@localhost:jeffrey-wen] ansible-playbook yum.yml

PLAY [Test yum module installs.] ***********************************************

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

ok: [localhost]

TASK [Install base applications] ***********************************************

failed: [localhost] (item=[u’epel-release’, u’vim-enhanced’, u’gcc’, u’wget’, u’libsemanage-python’, u’policycoreutils-python’, u’setroubleshoot’, u’tmux’]) => {“changed”:false,“failed”:true,“item”: [“epel-release”, “vim-enhanced”, “gcc”, “wget”, “libsemanage-python”, “policycoreutils-python”, “setroubleshoot”, “tmux”], “msg”: “No package matching ‘epel-release’ found available,installed or updated”, “rc”: 126, “results”: [“No package matching ‘epel-release’ found available, installed or updated”]}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

localhost : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

(duchess) [duchess@localhost:jeffrey-wen] ansible --version

ansible 2.2.0.0

config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

(duchess) [duchess@localhost:jeffrey-wen] cat yum.yml

7

Hey Alexander,

Thank you so much for helping me out! However, there is still an issue with a few of the other packages.

For example: try removing epel-release from the list and watch it complain about a few of the other packages.

8

Isn't that because those packages are from EPEL ? You need to add the
repo in one task,
and then add the other packages in the second.

9

Indeed, it is not possible to install packages from the epel repo without first installing the repo in yum.

10

This happens on RHEL when you run the tasks as non-root user.
Just specify become and become_user in yum task to fix this issue