# Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping yml **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 10, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143 "2021-05-10T15:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Suneel\_Hegde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Suneel\_Hegde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suneel_Hegde)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143/1 "2021-05-10T15:45:33Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143/2 "2021-05-10T15:50:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Suneel\_Hegde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Suneel\_Hegde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suneel_Hegde)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143/3 "2021-05-10T16:01:57Z")
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 % ---
**Author:** ![Komal\_Suthar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@Komal\_Suthar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Komal_Suthar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143/4 "2021-05-11T04:08:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Suneel\_Hegde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Suneel\_Hegde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suneel_Hegde)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-to-load-inventory-plugin-skipping-yml/35143/5 "2021-05-11T11:46:25Z")
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