# Cannot install some roles anymore, tries to import from GitHub user \`None\`

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** bug, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [October 29, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018 "2023-10-29T08:20:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/1 "2023-10-29T08:20:43Z")

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When trying to run `ansible-galaxy role install ansistrano.deploy`, I get:

```auto
Starting galaxy role install process
- downloading role 'deploy', owned by ansistrano
- downloading role from https://github.com/None/deploy/archive/3.14.0.tar.gz
 [ERROR]: failed to download the file: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[WARNING]: - ansistrano.deploy was NOT installed successfully.
ERROR! - you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles and finish processing the list.

```

The problem here is that `None` is used instead of `ansistrano`. I guess this comes from the metadata galaxy\_ng is delivering.

I don’t know whether the role authors did anything to that role (Galaxy claims the last release is from a year ago), but this is part of the community.general tests (for the ansible\_galaxy\_install module) and it worked until yesterday, and started failing completely today.

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/2 "2023-10-29T08:21:56Z")

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This also happens for other roles, such as `felixfontein.acme_certificate`. I guess this might be a general Galaxy roles problem. (Since that’s my role I know for sure that there hasn’t been a release for some time now. The last release was before the migration to the new Galaxy.)

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**Author:** ![BVollmerhaus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/bvollmerhaus/32/1350_2.png) [@BVollmerhaus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/BVollmerhaus)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/3 "2023-10-29T14:35:00Z")

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Can confirm; another role I regularly use (`nickjj.docker`) is no longer installable either and cannot be found using the Galaxy search. Also, it is very unlikely to have been taken down by its author.

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**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/4 "2023-10-29T18:48:26Z")

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I think this should be fixed now, can all of you please try installing again?

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/5 "2023-10-29T19:25:39Z")

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For the two roles I tried it’s now working. I’ve also been able to re-enabled the tests for community.general.ansible\_galaxy\_install succesfully ([Revert "Disable ansible\_galaxy\_install tests until Galaxy is fixed (#7440)" by felixfontein · Pull Request #7446 · ansible-collections/community.general · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7446)) - or at least the tests that ran so far, AZP seems to be too busy right now.

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**Author:** ![BVollmerhaus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/bvollmerhaus/32/1350_2.png) [@BVollmerhaus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/BVollmerhaus)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/6 "2023-10-30T12:31:59Z")

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Works again; thanks for the quick fix.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannot-install-some-roles-anymore-tries-to-import-from-github-user-none/2018/7 "2023-11-29T12:32:22Z")

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