# invalid output was: \[sudo via ansible, key=xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc\] password:

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**Created:** [June 6, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/invalid-output-was-sudo-via-ansible-key-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc-password/15420 "2014-06-06T17:27:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Richard\_Shaw](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Shaw)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/invalid-output-was-sudo-via-ansible-key-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc-password/15420/1 "2014-06-06T17:27:13Z")

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Hi, hit a wall with a bug and verbose output isn’t helping

```auto

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
<127.0.0.1> REMOTE_MODULE setup
<m7b> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: vagrant
<m7b> REMOTE_MODULE setup
<127.0.0.1> EXEC ['/bin/sh', '-c', 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029']
<m7b> EXEC ['sshpass', '-d10', 'ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/Users/Richard/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'GSSAPIAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PubkeyAuthentication=no', '-o', 'User=vagrant', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', 'm7b', "/bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-275366681857235 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-275366681857235 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-275366681857235'"]
<127.0.0.1> PUT /var/folders/65/h42y17593yj3rwt2qx_wwvj80000gn/T/tmpZjtRFH TO /Users/Richard/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029/setup
<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc; /usr/bin/python /Users/Richard/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029/setup; rm -rf /Users/Richard/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-189669884551029/ >/dev/null 2>&1'"'"''
<m7b> PUT /var/folders/65/h42y17593yj3rwt2qx_wwvj80000gn/T/tmpNrRGvN TO /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402074540.16-275366681857235/setup
failed: [127.0.0.1] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
invalid output was: [sudo via ansible, key=xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc] password:

```

More output available here below, any help appreciated.

[https://gist.github.com/aggress/a09d875ff961fbfe4423](https://gist.github.com/aggress/a09d875ff961fbfe4423)

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/invalid-output-was-sudo-via-ansible-key-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc-password/15420/2 "2014-06-07T18:39:10Z")

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From the output, it looks like it tried to ssh to localhost, but failed. This may be an issue with sshpass, or with sudo/ssh credentials on the system, if you can share any other details about your setup.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Richard\_Shaw](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Shaw)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/invalid-output-was-sudo-via-ansible-key-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc-password/15420/3 "2014-06-08T19:50:45Z")

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Thanks James

Ansible’s running locally and I’m hitting a single Vagrant instance using this play

[https://github.com/aggress/ansible-mapr/blob/master/hue.yml](https://github.com/aggress/ansible-mapr/blob/master/hue.yml)

I have to split things up because I’m hitting a single node, doing the Hue role then dynamically creating a new host group running an activity on those then a fine task on the original single node. At some point it does look like it’s trying to ssh to localhost but I can’t see why it would do that as in this test it’s only hitting a single node labelled m7b which resolves to 192.168.33.11

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Richard\_Shaw](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Shaw)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/invalid-output-was-sudo-via-ansible-key-xfucmmnngaakrzojuosuatbjpbtjsqvc-password/15420/4 "2014-06-09T15:49:27Z")

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So, I’ve double checked things, I can’t see any reason why the first play completes successfully and hits node m7b as defined in vagrant\_hosts but the second play hits 127.0.0.1 and m7b. It should be a repeat of the first play.