new module locale_gen fails with "Is the package “locales” installed?"

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Hi all

Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong? I’m trying to generate and set the system’s locale with the following tasks against ubuntu server 14.04.

tasks

  • name: install the locales package

apt: pkg=locales state=present

  • name: ensure the locale exists
    locale_gen: name={{ locale }} state=present

  • name: set the locale
    command: /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG={{ locale }} --reset

output

msg: /etc/locale.gen and /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local are missing. Is the package “locales” installed?

However I have confirmed that the locales package is indeed installed.

Also if I don’t use the locale_gen: module everything works fine.

tasks

  • name: install the locales package

apt: pkg=locales state=present

  • name: ensure the locale exists
    command: /usr/sbin/locale-gen {{ locale }}

  • name: set the locale
    command: /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG={{ locale }} --reset

output

changed: [vps03.fqdn.com] => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“/usr/sbin/locale-gen”, “en_GB.UTF-8”], “delta”: “0:00:02.105356”, “end”: “2014-04-25 01:03:10.600058”, “item”: “”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2014-04-25 01:03:08.494702”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “Generating locales…\n en_GB.UTF-8… done\nGeneration complete.”}

Thanks for the help

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“However I have confirmed that the locales package is indeed installed.”

Is it installed on the remote node? That’s where it’s needed.

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Hi Michael

Thanks - sorry for not replying. I forgot to set up notifications correctly.

the locales package is installed on the remote node via the task

  • name: install the locales package

apt: pkg=locales state=present

and I confirmed that it was present

root@vps01:~# apt-get install locales
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
locales is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

using /usr/sbin/locale-gen directly works fine so I guess I’ll stick with that for now

I get the error message on ubuntu server 12.04 and 14.04

if I haven’t made any obvious mistakes perhaps I should mention this on github

Thanks

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The error message may have made some assumptions about the name of the package in a particular distro.

If you’d like to file a ticket in github we can take a look.

github.com/ansible/ansible – thanks!