Newbie: Error running ansible playbook

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  • hosts: CSRs
    gather_facts: false
    connection: local

tasks:

  • name: test show run
    ios_config:
    authorize: yes
    lines:
  • do show run

I have the above simple show_run.yaml ansible playbook. While i run this playbook I am getting this error:

~/central-orchestration/csr-instance-ansible-poc > ansible-playbook show_run.yaml
ERROR! conflicting action statements: ios_config, name

The error appears to have been in ‘/Users/vishlpa4/central-orchestration/csr-instance-ansible-poc/show_run.yaml’: line 6, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

tasks:

  • name: test show run
    ^ here

The error appears to have been in ‘/Users/vishlpa4/central-orchestration/csr-instance-ansible-poc/show_run.yaml’: line 6, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

tasks:

  • name: test show run
    ^ here

exception type: <class ‘ansible.errors.AnsibleParserError’>
exception: conflicting action statements: ios_config, name

The error appears to have been in ‘/Users/vishlpa4/central-orchestration/csr-instance-ansible-poc/show_run.yaml’: line 6, column 6, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

tasks:

  • name: test show run
    ^ here

~/central-orchestration/csr-instance-ansible-poc >

Am I missing something here ?

Thanks
Vishlesh

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I suspect that it is invalid YAML at that point, it is very strict
about it's spaces.

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Hi Brian,

Thanks for the reply. checking it with yaml validation online tool and it does not show any error.

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Update:

Figured out an error.

I was initially getting error of packaging module missing : module_failure for another Ansible module that installs azure VM.

TASK [azure_rm_virtualnetwork] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named packaging.version
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “module_stderr”: “Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/var/folders/tx/v8mw27js4vn1rzwr53dxf1y40000gn/T/ansible_Z_Z8rL/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualnetwork.py", line 137, in \n from ansible.module_utils.azure_rm_common import AzureRMModuleBase, CIDR_PATTERN\n File "/var/folders/tx/v8mw27js4vn1rzwr53dxf1y40000gn/T/ansible_Z_Z8rL/ansible_modlib.zip/ansible/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py", line 28, in \nImportError: No module named packaging.version\n”, “module_stdout”: “”, “msg”: “MODULE FAILURE”, “rc”: 0}

To solve it, I pip installed packaging package and update ansible.cfg to point to the dir where packaging is installed by appending that dir to

library=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages

turns out that Ansible installs its own version of python and keeps its own version of site-packages. So I pip installed the package locally into Ansible’s verison of python site-packages.

Any better approach than this to solve this python dependency issues?

Thanks
Vishlesh

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Ansible does not install it's own version of Python. Ansible DOES has
a dependency on Python 2.6/2.7 or >=3.5, so installing Ansible through
most methods (pip/OS pkgmgr) can install Python, there is no real way
to avoid this if you want a working copy unless you install the
required Python yourself.