ERROR: msg: this module requires key=value arguments

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Hi!!

Having issues with command tasks . . .

gmatz@fuzzybunny ~/Code/ansible-local $ ansible-playbook --version
ansible-playbook 1.9.1 (detached HEAD b47d1d7e69) last updated 2015/06/10 17:15:55 (GMT -400)
lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD d6ed6113a7) last updated 2015/06/10 10:07:33 (GMT -400)
lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 57813a2e74) last updated 2015/06/10 10:08:25 (GMT -400)
v2/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD 34784b7a61) last updated 2015/06/11 11:11:04 (GMT -400)
v2/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 46e316a20a) last updated 2015/06/11 11:11:21 (GMT -400)
configured module search path = /usr/share/ansible

  • name: Get VBox version for installing extension pack
    command: /usr/bin/VBoxManage --version
    register: vbox_ver
    changed_when: False

TASK: [workstation | Get VBox version for installing extension pack] **********
failed: [localhost] => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true}
msg: this module requires key=value arguments ([‘/usr/bin/VBoxManage’, ‘–version’])

This work a few months ago . . . doesn’t look like anything has changed with the command module . . .

I have tried quoting the contents of the command, but that didn’t help. any thoughts would be appreciated!!

Thanks a lot,

Guy

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You could have a problem with the ‘command’ module in devel in the ansible-modules-core repo and running ansible 1.9.

There are changes for ansible 2.0 that impacted the command module in ansible-modules-core. So the devel version of the command module is not compatible with ansible 1.9.

You might want to checkout the stable-1.9 branch and re-init your submodules.

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That did it! Thanks!!