# Newbie: Error running ansible playbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 5, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904 "2018-03-05T22:40:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vishlesh\_Patel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dfb087/32.png) [@Vishlesh\_Patel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vishlesh_Patel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904/1 "2018-03-05T22:40:45Z")
- 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: \ 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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904/2 "2018-03-05T22:43:48Z")
I suspect that it is invalid YAML at that point, it is very strict about it's spaces. ---
**Author:** ![Vishlesh\_Patel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dfb087/32.png) [@Vishlesh\_Patel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vishlesh_Patel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904/3 "2018-03-05T23:23:48Z")
Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. checking it with yaml validation online tool and it does not show any error. [![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OiRKwllp9wc/Wp3RVkaOMOI/AAAAAAAACGQ/_x0cmntWL2k3FW3uWeTsskGzpWGtWu6hgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-03-05%2Bat%2B6.22.27%2BPM.png)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OiRKwllp9wc/Wp3RVkaOMOI/AAAAAAAACGQ/_x0cmntWL2k3FW3uWeTsskGzpWGtWu6hgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-03-05%2Bat%2B6.22.27%2BPM.png) ---
**Author:** ![Vishlesh\_Patel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dfb087/32.png) [@Vishlesh\_Patel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vishlesh_Patel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904/4 "2018-03-06T04:26:57Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/newbie-error-running-ansible-playbook/26904/5 "2018-03-06T22:30:01Z")
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.