# my playbooks have broke since 1.9. Sudo issues it seems

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 31, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879 "2015-03-31T10:44:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Copeland](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Copeland)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/1 "2015-03-31T10:44:05Z")

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Hi all,

So, since 1.9.0.1-1 my playbooks have broken.

My playbook:

roles:

- role: common  
sudo: yes

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/etc/fstab’  
OpenSSH\_6.8p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2a 19 Mar 2015

The fix:

Add sudo: yes to the task:

cat roles/common/tasks/main.yml

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**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:** [March 31, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/2 "2015-03-31T12:39:05Z")

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this should be fixed in current devel, roles and includes were not  
passing sudo parameters to their tasks.

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Copeland](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Copeland)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/3 "2015-03-31T13:37:17Z")

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Okay thanks Brain. Was a bug introduced?

I am running version from Arch Linux ([https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ansible/](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ansible/))

Two options:

- Role back to to 1.8.4 (sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ansible-1.8.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz)
- Or install devel.

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Copeland](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Copeland)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/4 "2015-03-31T13:39:39Z")

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Just FYI:

Added IgnorePkg=ansible into my pacman.conf and rolled back to 1.8.4.

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**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/5 "2015-03-31T13:43:08Z")

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Third option if you need it is to run the stable-1.9 branch. That is what we’ll be cutting the 1.9.1 (and other future, 1.9 releases) from.

-Toshio

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**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:** [March 31, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/6 "2015-03-31T13:43:34Z")

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It was an 'unknown feature' but we decided to support it so it is a  
bug, we will be releasing fix in 1.9.1 soon.

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Copeland1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Copeland1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Copeland1)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/7 "2015-03-31T13:59:09Z")

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Ah okay. Thanks.

I see your commit [https://github.com/bcoca/ansible/commit/662b35cbce50b43f542750451fd35d58bfa2ffd9](https://github.com/bcoca/ansible/commit/662b35cbce50b43f542750451fd35d58bfa2ffd9)

I will just use 1.8.4 for now, and will upgrade to 1.9.1 when its released.

Thanks for all your efforts Brain, you do a great job

Ben

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**Author:** ![Michel\_Blanc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Michel\_Blanc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michel_Blanc)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/8 "2015-03-31T16:22:42Z")

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Hi,

You have devel provided in AUR already if it can help:

[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ansible-git/](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ansible-git/)

Cheers,

M

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Kalnas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Adam\_Kalnas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Kalnas)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/9 "2015-05-04T19:03:34Z")

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Seems like this is still an issue on 1.9.1. Test it this morning that the workaround is still needed.

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**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 4, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/my-playbooks-have-broke-since-1-9-sudo-issues-it-seems/17879/10 "2015-05-04T19:07:37Z")

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@adam, I cannot reproduce the original problem anymore, can you give  
an example in which this fails?
