# Digest for awx-project@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 2 topics

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/digest-for-awx-project-googlegroups-com-4-updates-in-2-topics/37168>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx-project, ubuntu, awx\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/digest-for-awx-project-googlegroups-com-4-updates-in-2-topics/37168 "2022-10-03T15:10:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saravanan\_Jothiling1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Saravanan\_Jothiling1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Saravanan_Jothiling1)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/digest-for-awx-project-googlegroups-com-4-updates-in-2-topics/37168/1 "2022-10-03T15:10:10Z")

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Hi,  
On Ubuntu (Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS), I tried running the playbook to set up AWX. The ‘create preload data’ task is failing with the below error. Could you please let me know how to resolve this?  
Note - in the inventory file, the following is set - create\_preload\_data=True

TASK [local\_docker : Create Preload data] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “cmd”: [“docker”, “exec”, “awx\_task”, “bash”, “-c”, “/usr/bin/awx-manage create\_preload\_data”], “delta”: “0:00:24.925299”, “end”: “2022-10-03 14:31:28.403543”, “msg”: “non-zero return code”, “rc”: 1, “start”: “2022-10-03 14:31:03.478244”, “stderr”: “Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/bin/awx-manage", line 8, in \n sys.exit(manage())\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/ **init**.py", line 154, in manage\n execute\_from\_command\_line(sys.argv)\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py", line 381, in execute\_from\_command\_line\n utility.execute()\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py", line 375, in execute\n self.fetch\_command(subcommand).run\_from\_argv(self.argv)\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 323, in run\_from\_argv\n self.execute(\*args, \*\*cmd\_options)\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 364, in execute\n output = self.handle(\*args, \*\*options)\n File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/create\_preload\_data.py", line 41, in handle\n ‘username’: superuser.username\nAttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘username’”, “stderr\_lines”: [“Traceback (most recent call last):”, " File "/usr/bin/awx-manage", line 8, in “, " sys.exit(manage())”, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/ **init**.py", line 154, in manage", " execute\_from\_command\_line(sys.argv)“, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py", line 381, in execute\_from\_command\_line”, " utility.execute()“, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py", line 375, in execute”, " self.fetch\_command(subcommand).run\_from\_argv(self.argv)“, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 323, in run\_from\_argv”, " self.execute(\*args, \*\*cmd\_options)“, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 364, in execute”, " output = self.handle(\*args, \*\*options)“, " File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/create\_preload\_data.py", line 41, in handle”, " ‘username’: superuser.username", “AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘username’”], “stdout”: “”, “stdout\_lines”: }

Thanks  
Saravanan