# new ansible server build

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-ansible-server-build/33820>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-ansible-server-build/33820 "2020-09-16T02:27:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Bidwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Chris\_Bidwell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Bidwell)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-ansible-server-build/33820/1 "2020-09-16T02:27:06Z")

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Hi all, so this may be simple but I can’t seem to figure it out. ☹

I built a new RHEL8 server from my RHEL7 system and ran my playbooks as normally would and now I’m getting these errors:

WARNING]: sftp transfer mechanism failed on [host1-lx]. Use ANSIBLE\_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information  
[WARNING]: scp transfer mechanism failed on [host1-lx]. Use ANSIBLE\_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information  
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b’/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-73581mdop998/tmps7c2r6yx’  
fatal: [host1-lx]: FAILED! =\> {“msg”: “Unexpected failure during module execution.”, “stdout”: “”}

ansible 2.9.13  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = [‘/home/user1/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible  
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible  
python version = 3.6.8 (default, Dec 5 2019, 15:45:45) [GCC 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)]

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-ansible-server-build/33820/2 "2020-09-16T09:10:56Z")

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Hii

> Hi all, so this may be simple but I can't seem to figure it out. ☹
> 
> I built a new RHEL8 server from my RHEL7 system and ran my playbooks as normally would and now I'm getting these errors:

Building to me means creating from scratch - I assume you meant you  
upgraded a RHEL7 to RHEL8?  
Also it is not clear whether this built (or upgraded) RHEL8 system is  
the controller node or one of the managed nodes. Please specify.

> WARNING]: sftp transfer mechanism failed on [host1-lx]. Use ANSIBLE\_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information  
> [WARNING]: scp transfer mechanism failed on [host1-lx]. Use ANSIBLE\_DEBUG=1 to see detailed information  
> An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-73581mdop998/tmps7c2r6yx'  
> fatal: [host1-lx]: FAILED! =\> {"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}

This would indicate an authentication issue. I would look at  
SSH/config changes between RHEL7 and 8.

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Bidwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Chris\_Bidwell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Bidwell)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-ansible-server-build/33820/3 "2020-09-16T14:19:42Z")

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I was unable to do a successful RHEL 7 → 8 upgrade. So I did a clean install on a separate system and moved all of my content over to that system. The RHEL8 system is the controller node. I am using the same ssh keys from the RHEL7 system.