# Displaying remote failures. Was "Using ansible and getting "No module named simplejson", here's where to find it."

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**Created:** [May 8, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/displaying-remote-failures-was-using-ansible-and-getting-no-module-named-simplejson-heres-where-to-find-it/11516 "2012-05-08T18:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wes\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@Wes\_Johnson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wes_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/displaying-remote-failures-was-using-ansible-and-getting-no-module-named-simplejson-heres-where-to-find-it/11516/1 "2012-05-08T18:18:38Z")

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I had more thoughts on this, but I didn’t want to jeopardize your google ranking, and succinct post.

I woke up this morning disagreeing with myself. After reading the error output for a 2nd time, it’s pretty clear that the error is coming from the remote machine. You’re BDFL and all, but I think a tie between ‘people who use ansible’, and ‘people who haven’t used ansible before’ should go to the former. A fresh pair of eyes should only go so far 🙂

Although, it might help if the output was indented evenly:

[wes@mgmt001 playbooks]$ ansible all -m ping  
[testansible.dal05.domain.com](http://testansible.dal05.domain.com) | FAILED \>\> {  
“failed”: true,  
“msg”: “”,  
“parsed”: false  
}

stderr: [[testansible.dal05.domain.com](http://testansible.dal05.domain.com)] =\> Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/tmp/ansible.Gh2711/ping”, line 23, in ? ## This is indented

import simplejson as json ## This is indented more

ImportError: No module named simplejson ## This is not indented at all

Thoughts? Am I just spinning my wheels here?