# "'Connection' object has no attribute 'shell'" when attempting to establish an accelerated connection **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 15, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679 "2014-07-15T14:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Karnowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@David\_Karnowski](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Karnowski)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/1 "2014-07-15T14:54:38Z")
I received the below error when trying to run a playbook. I’m running your latest dev Ansible pulled from github (1.7). I’m new to Ansible and am setting it up on my PC for the first time, although we have it running elsewhere in our organization and am playing with their existing playbooks. Here’s the change (hack) I put in your code to work around the issue: ` > diff ./build/lib.linux-x86\_64-2.7/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/accelerate.py /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/accelerate.py > 103a104,105 > if not getattr(self.ssh, ‘shell’, None): > self.ssh.shell = utils.plugins.shell\_loader.get(‘sh’) ` It’s probably not the best solution to the problem, but FYI. thanks, David ` > ansible-playbook reports.yml -vvvv --check --user=root --connection=ssh PLAY [lab2] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* GATHERING FACTS \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* attempting connection to 172.16.8.191 via the accelerated port 5099 connection to 172.16.8.191 failed, retrying… connection to 172.16.8.191 failed, retrying… connection to 172.16.8.191 failed, retrying… Could not connect via the accelerated connection, exceeded # of tries Falling back to ssh to startup accelerated mode attempting to start up the accelerate daemon… \<172.16.8.191\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: root fatal: [172.16.8.191] =\> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 528, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 630, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 801, in \_executor\_internal\_inner conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 34, in connect self.active = conn.connect() File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/accelerate.py”, line 146, in connect res = self.\_execute\_accelerate\_module() File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/accelerate.py”, line 104, in \_execute\_accelerate\_module tmp\_path = self.runner.\_make\_tmp\_path(self.ssh) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 1036, in \_make\_tmp\_path cmd = conn.shell.mkdtemp(basefile, use\_system\_tmp, tmp\_mode) AttributeError: ‘Connection’ object has no attribute ‘shell’ ` ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Beaudreault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90db22/32.png) [@Bryan\_Beaudreault](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Beaudreault)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/2 "2014-08-26T23:05:59Z")
Seeing this same issue. Is there a better fix? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/3 "2014-08-26T23:17:03Z")
Haven’t heard any reports of this - apologies on not having a reply to the July 15th thread, must have missed it. Can you please share what you do on a clean VM to replicate the issue and the output of ‘ansible --version’ ? I am hoping “PC” does not mean Windows host, as we definitely only support managing Windows nodes, not running Ansible from Windows pythons. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Hein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ed\_Hein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ed_Hein)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/4 "2014-08-28T07:52:54Z")
Hi, I’ve just encountered the same issue. Ansible 1.7.1 from Debian Testing Repository. OP proposed fix helps. I can reproduce it with this playbook: - hosts: testsetup accelerate: yes accelerate\_port: 4711 tasks: - command: /bin/ls Cya, Ed ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/5 "2014-08-28T11:59:03Z")
Ok, I’ll file a bug on this now so it can be fixed for later. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-object-has-no-attribute-shell-when-attempting-to-establish-an-accelerated-connection/15679/6 "2014-08-28T21:03:49Z")
This was addressed on the devel branch today, and will be a part of a future 1.7.2 update which we’ll do soon. Thanks!