Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping yml

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Hello Team,

I am trying to do ansible all --list-hosts -vvvvvvv and try to ping the hosts but getting this error could you please help me to solve this problem?

suneelkumar@LT Ansible % ansible all --list-hosts -vvvvvvv
ansible 2.10.4
config file = /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [‘/Users/suneelkumar/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.2 (default, Apr 8 2021, 23:19:18) [Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9)]
Using /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
[WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping yml
host_list declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
script declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
auto declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
yaml declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
ini declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
toml declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
advanced_host_list declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
constructed declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
yaml declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’
hosts (0):
suneelkumar@LT Ansible %

suneelkumar@LT Ansible % ansible all -m ping
[WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping yml
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’
suneelkumar@LT Ansible %

I am running ansible 2.10.4

Thank you !

regards,

Suneel

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Your inventory seems to be configured literally as:

/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts #/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts.yaml

Note that the # and everything after is still included as part of the path, where I assume you meant it to be a comment.

Move the comment to its own line, and I would assume that it should start working for you.

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I tried that, but its still not working giving this error

suneelkumar@LT- Ansible % ansible all --list-hosts -vvvvvvv
ansible 2.10.4
config file = /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [‘/Users/suneelkumar/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.2 (default, Apr 8 2021, 23:19:18) [Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9)]
Using /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
toml declined parsing /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts with script plugin: problem running /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts
–list ([Errno 8] Exec format error: ‘/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts’)
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py”, line 289, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py”, line 169, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError(to_native(e))
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts with yaml plugin: We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got
from each: JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 2 (char 1) Syntax Error while loading YAML. expected ‘’, but found ‘[’ The error appears to be in
‘/Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts’: line 3, column 1, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to
be: [ios:vars] ^ here
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py”, line 289, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py”, line 105, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError(e)
[WARNING]: * Failed to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts with ini plugin: /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts:10: Expected
key=value, got: ansible_connection: ansible.netcommon.network_cli
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py”, line 289, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File “/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py”, line 138, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError(e)
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Users/suneelkumar/Documents/Automation/Ansible/hosts as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’
hosts (0):
suneelkumar@LT- Ansible %

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Have you created the inventory file and also give the location of the inventory file in the ansible configuration file and also im ansible in think there are only 4 v’s verbosity and we cant use this -vvvv with this inventory we can use this while we run a playbook.

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There was a mistake in the host file insted of using = i used :

that is the reason it was giving the error

thank you everyone for your response