Notify with import or include not working

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I’m on ansible 2.6.3-1.el7 on CentOS 7.2 and i’m having problems with notify using include_tasks or import_tasks

This is that i want to achieve:

using a variable to pass the packages list to a task that use yum to install them

then if any packages is installed (changed state) notify two handlers (also them imported/included) passing the daemon to start/reload/restart/enable/disable/mask/unmask the daemon

So this is my playbook.yml

  • hosts:
    dyn194

tasks:

Install openafs client

  • name: install openafs
    import_tasks: /root/ansible/tasks/install_packages.yml
    vars:
    daemon_boot: “openafs-client”
    daemon_reload: “openafs-client”
    daemon_start: “openafs-client”
    packages_to_install:
  • kernel-devel
  • dkms-openafs
  • openafs
  • openafs-client
  • openafs-docs
  • openafs-krb5
    notify:
  • start daemon
  • enable start at boot of daemon
    tags: opens

handlers:

  • import_tasks: /root/ansible/handlers/start_daemon.yml

  • import_tasks: /root/ansible/handlers/reload_daemon.yml

  • import_tasks: /root/ansible/handlers/enable_start_at_boot_daemon.yml

  • import_tasks: /root/ansible/handlers/restart_daemon.yml

this is my install_packages.yml

Task to install packages

  • name: install packages
    yum:
    name: “{{ item }}”
    state: present
    with_items: “{{ packages_to_install }}”

this is my start_daemon.yml (handler task)

Start daemon daemon_start

  • name: start daemon
    systemd:
    name: “{{ daemon_start }}”
    status: started

  • debug:
    msg: “daemon to start = {{ daemon_start }}”
    listen: start daemon

this is my enable_start_at_boot_of_daemon (handler task)

Enable start at boot of the daemon_boot

  • name: enable start at boot of daemon
    systemd:
    name: “{{ daemon_boot }}”
    enabled: yes

  • debug:
    msg: “daemon to start at boot = {{ daemon_boot }}”
    listen: enable start at boot of daemon

Now when i run the playbook i get

PLAY [dyn194] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *******************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [dyn194]

TASK [install packages] ******************************************************************************************************************************************

changed: [dyn194] => (item=[u’kernel-devel’, u’dkms-openafs’, u’openafs’, u’openafs-client’, u’openafs-docs’, u’openafs-krb5’])

PLAY RECAP *******************************************************************************************************************************************************
dyn194 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0

the packages got installed but i don’t get the notifies to run the handlers

infact if i show the status of openafs-client i get

[root@dyn194 ~]# systemctl status openafs-client
● openafs-client.service - OpenAFS Client Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openafs-client.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

so it is not started and not enabled and in any case i got the debug messages i put in the handlers

How can i solve this ?

Thanks in advance
Claudio

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No hints about this problem ?

Include_task or import_task doesn’t notify handlers, if i include the task directly in the playbook it works, but this is not the way to reuse tasks in multiple playbooks.

So any hints or ideas are welcomed

Claudio