enigmatic traceback

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Hi,

I got this traceback when trying to run a playbook with ansible 1.8 on
Debian Wheezy :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 324, in <module>
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 264, in main
pb.run()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line
313, in run
play = Play(self, play_ds, play_basedir, vault_password=self.vault_password)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/playbook/play.py", line 165,
in __init__
self._tasks = self._load_tasks(self._ds.get('tasks', ), load_vars)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/playbook/play.py", line 598,
in _load_tasks
loaded = self._load_tasks(data, mv, default_vars, included_sudo_vars,
list(included_additional_conditions), original_file=include_filename,
role_name=new_role)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/playbook/play.py", line 606,
in _load_tasks
role_name=role_name
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/playbook/task.py", line 69,
in __init__
if x in utils.plugins.module_finder:
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/plugins.py", line 186,
in has_plugin
return self.find_plugin(name) is not None
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/plugins.py", line 175,
in find_plugin
for i in self._get_paths():
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/plugins.py", line 138,
in _get_paths
ret.extend(self._get_package_paths())
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/plugins.py", line 94,
in _get_package_paths
m = __import__(self.package)
ImportError: No module named modules

Does anyone know what this is about ?

Thank you, regards

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How did you install 1.8? Ansible now uses sub modules for a few paths, so you need to make sure you follow:

You can find instructions here for a variety of platforms. If you decide to go with the development branch, be sure to run “git submodule update --init --recursive” after doing a checkout.

3

FWIW Matt - Ansible will produce more human readable errors when a submodule isn’t checked out.

But yeah, I’m curious how this was installed.

4

Hi,

5

Doing “make deb” without getting the latest submodules first would leave some things out, yes.

(I’m still curious why it tracebacked versus giving you the “can’t find modules” friendly message)

6

Guys, please make it throw something better then python exception! I’ve spent damn half an hour trying to run my playbooks ;(