Help figuring linter fail with conflicting action statements: hosts, tasks

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Hello. I haven’t been able to find a satisfactory solution to the problem I am having.

The linter throws the following error: [parser-error] conflicting action statements: hosts, tasks

I am running ansible-lint 5.2.0 using ansible 2.11.5.

This is the playbook (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/ansible/vm-configure?tabs=ansible#clean-up-resources):

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I should add that this problem also happens with the following example playbook:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-execution

But, only for the first play in the playbook.

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The error seems to stem from the fact that I had it in a folders called tasks instead of a folder called playbook:

https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-lint/issues/1471

Now the linter is working fine.