Can't disable jenkins on Debian Jessie using service module

Hi everybody,

I’m creating a playbook to install jenkins LTS (http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian-stable/) on Debian Jessie. Everything seems to be working fine except when I try to disable the jenkins. I using Debian Jessie on mgmt and Jessie nodes:

`
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible --version
ansible 1.9.3
configured module search path = None
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig jenkins”
jenkins on
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible -m service -a “name=jenkins enabled=no” jenkins -vv -s
REMOTE_MODULE service name=jenkins enabled=no
jenkins | success >> {
“changed”: false,
“enabled”: false,
“name”: “jenkins”
}

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig jenkins”
jenkins on
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig jenkins off”
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible -m service -a “name=jenkins enabled=yes” jenkins -vv -s
REMOTE_MODULE service name=jenkins enabled=yes
jenkins | success >> {
“changed”: true,
“enabled”: true,
“name”: “jenkins”
}

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig jenkins”
jenkins on
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible -m service -a “name=jenkins enabled=no” jenkins -vv -s
REMOTE_MODULE service name=jenkins enabled=no
jenkins | success >> {
“changed”: false,
“enabled”: false,
“name”: “jenkins”
}

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig jenkins”
jenkins on
`

I repeated the same test using a distro package and everything seems to be working fine:

`
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig nginx”
nginx on
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible -m service -a “name=nginx enabled=no” jenkins -vv -s
REMOTE_MODULE service name=nginx enabled=no
jenkins | success >> {
“changed”: true,
“enabled”: false,
“name”: “nginx”
}

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig nginx”
nginx off
vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible -m service -a “name=nginx enabled=yes” jenkins -vv -s
REMOTE_MODULE service name=nginx enabled=yes
jenkins | success >> {
“changed”: true,
“enabled”: true,
“name”: “nginx”
}

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh jenkins “sudo -u root chkconfig nginx”
nginx on
`

So my question is: What do ansible do to disable services on Debian Jessie? How can i debug this issue? I tried with “-vvv” but I didn’t get any useful information.

I presume that there may be a bug on the jenkins debian package but I need more info to try to fix it.

Thanks in advance,

Alfredo

It seems like the bug has already been fixed on ansible 2.0: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/1905/files