# msg: \[Errno 2\] No such file or directory **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 16, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/msg-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory/18244 "2015-05-16T06:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/msg-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory/18244/1 "2015-05-16T06:10:38Z")
Hi I'm getting a "msg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" on "apt" with the most simple playbook. This is with version v1.9.1-1 I checked my syntax etc... and the only way I can fix it is to go to version v1.5.0. Googling, I see that this was an issue but it was fixed in 1.5.2. Can there be something specific in my environment that causes this? A problem with sudo? Anybody else running into this? Here is the full result: TASK: [baselinux | install important packages] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* failed: [tuck] =\> {"cmd": "DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBIAN\_PRIORITY=critical /usr/bin/apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold install tmux", "failed": true, "rc": 2} msg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting Is the issue that it tries to run 'DEBIAN\_FRONTEND"? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/msg-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory/18244/2 "2015-05-16T16:01:16Z")
DEBIAN\_FRONTEND is just being set as an environment variable to tell apt not to prompt. what OS are you running against? can you share the 'simple play'? ---
**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/msg-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory/18244/3 "2015-05-16T16:34:16Z")
> DEBIAN\_FRONTEND is just being set as an environment variable to tell > apt not to prompt. I realise that, I knew you could do that with shell, but I hadn't realised it worked with cmd which I thought was a C exec of a binary command. > what OS are you running against? can you share the 'simple play'? Ubuntu 14.04, although, in an LXC container, but I can ssh into that container, and "sudo apt-get install tmux", and the sysctl module does work. As far as ansible is concerned, that container is just another Ubuntu machine: main.yaml in role:     - name: swappiness       sysctl: name=vm.swappiness value=0 reload=yes checks=none     - name: install important packages       apt: name=tmux site.yaml     - name: Apply base Linux config       hosts: all       gather\_facts: no       sudo: yes       remote\_user: yves       roles:         - baselinux The command I use to run it:     ansible-playbook --user yves -K site.yaml ---
**Author:** ![Yves\_Dorfsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yves\_Dorfsman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yves_Dorfsman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/msg-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory/18244/4 "2015-05-16T17:37:33Z")
Ok, solved, the issue was with submodules, I did: git submodule update --init lib/ansible/modules/core git submodule update --init lib/ansible/modules/extras and it works now. I think it was using the core modules from an old version. I had not used ansible for a while, and had not re-read the doc, I see it now: [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_installation.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html)     git pull --rebase     git submodule update --init --recursive