# getting error while trying to create my own role

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302 "2017-04-25T09:49:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![acharya\_tejaswi\_indu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@acharya\_tejaswi\_indu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/acharya_tejaswi_indu)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302/1 "2017-04-25T09:49:28Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to create a new role from my playbook. I had created a file with the created role

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**Author:** ![nabila.arias.linacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eada6e/32.png) [@nabila.arias.linacer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nabila.arias.linacer)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302/2 "2017-04-25T11:30:09Z")

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your file role must be in the path ansible/roles/own\_test/tasks/main.yml

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dick\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Davies)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302/3 "2017-04-25T17:04:05Z")

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It is, or the task wouldn't have run.

OP: Your role looks broken, but you haven't show that.

Probably /usr/bin/lsb\_release doesn't exist on localhost.

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**Author:** ![acharya\_tejaswi\_indu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@acharya\_tejaswi\_indu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/acharya_tejaswi_indu)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-error-while-trying-to-create-my-own-role/24302/4 "2017-04-28T08:23:20Z")

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I resolved that by adding become\_method: sudo  
remote\_user: ec2\_user in that above own\_test.yml