# Incomprehensible error message

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655 "2024-01-18T05:38:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![HobsonI](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/hobsoni/32/4960_2.png) [@HobsonI](https://forum.ansible.com/u/HobsonI)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/1 "2024-01-18T05:38:09Z")

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Found the problem.

The comma separated list of privileges, cannot have spaces after the commas.

This is unusually user-hostile!

Regards

Ian

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**Author:** ![vbotka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/vbotka/32/359_2.png) [@vbotka](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vbotka)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/2 "2024-01-18T07:30:57Z")

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This was fixed two years ago  
[https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/blob/main/plugins/module\_utils/user.py#L522](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/blob/main/plugins/module_utils/user.py#L522)

See also:  
[https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/189](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/189)  
[https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/243](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/243)

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**Author:** ![Walter\_Rowe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/walter_rowe/32/4506_2.png) [@Walter\_Rowe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Walter_Rowe)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/3 "2024-01-18T12:22:44Z")

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This raises a good observation. It is easy to keep ansible updated. It is not so evident how one can keep their collections updated.

How do others keep their collections current?

Walter

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**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/4 "2024-01-18T12:57:39Z")

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We tend to use the ansible version as the starting point, and use just the collection versions from that…  
Or do you mean something else?

Dick

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**Author:** ![Walter\_Rowe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/walter_rowe/32/4506_2.png) [@Walter\_Rowe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Walter_Rowe)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/5 "2024-01-18T18:11:44Z")

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If you install a collection via ansible-galaxy how do you keep it updated? Is there a galaxy command to refresh all your existing collections and plugins?

Walter

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**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/incomprehensible-error-message/38655/6 "2024-01-18T19:19:40Z")

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I don’t know but I also don’t immediately see a good use case for that. We’ve settled on pip installing ansible-core, plus a curated subset of the collections, with the versions that come with ansible. We don’t upgrade collections, just bump to another ansible version (and hence ansible-core and whatever version of collections that comes with).  
If you just want to have the latest versions of collections, then I don’t know how to do that, but I haven’t looked into that either.

Dick