ec2_facts hung

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Hi all,

The subject is misleading but I would like to get some helps on how to troubleshoot this or figure out what can be done.

I have about 70 instances with tag kafkaproducer=yes and I want to do rolling updates to them but my playbook went nowhere with ec2_facts.

I ran the module ec2_facts on the command line and at around 37 instances, the thing just stood there for eternity.
ansible tag_kafkaproducer_yes -i ec2.py -m ec2_facts -vvvv -f 10

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<ec2-…compute-1.amazonaws.com> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/steven/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘IdentityFile=“/home/steven/.ssh/key-ec2”’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=ec2-user’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, u’ec2…compute-1.amazonaws.com’, u’/bin/sh -c 'su root -c “/bin/sh -c '”'“'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-zfbckatzfxprscqyvqbrpepuokyhmtnn; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1410222363.53-10317830534118/ec2_facts; rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1410222363.53-10317830534118/ >/dev/null 2>&1'”'“'”'']

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Hmm, that’s interesting.

This may not help, but what version of Ansible are you on and is this the first task in your playbook? (Also, is gather_facts enabled? If it gathers facts, this is the 2nd task and my question is not relevant).

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Hi Michael,

I am using 1.7.1 and gather_facts was enabled by default.

And just this morning, I tried again then things are working just fine. At this point, it is not an issue but it did happen for me.

Sorry for wasting your times, Michael.

Thanks for your helps,
Steven.

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Nah, it’s ok.

I’m wondering if the EC2 metadata service had a glitch and was just giving you a very long timeout?