# Problem with raw connections **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [June 15, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616 "2012-06-15T13:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@jno](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jno)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/1 "2012-06-15T13:07:34Z")
Hi! I'm experimenting with Ansible trying to use the raw command to run "apt-get update && apt-get install python-simplejson" on several hosts that are running Ubuntu 8.04 from a machine that have Ubuntu 12.04 with Python 2.7.3 and I get the following result back from the Ubuntu 8.04 host: ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/2 "2012-06-15T13:33:48Z")
Sounds like you are using the devel branch. (Reminder: everyone please specify what version of ansible you are using) I believe the result=results thing was fixed recently, if you haven’t tried the latest development branch as of say, yesterday PM, I would retry it. If not, please file a bug in the github issue tracker. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/3 "2012-06-15T13:42:39Z")
Actually this is just broken for the raw module, so yes, make sure you file a ticket. It’s a one line patch to change “results=” to “result=”, so a great chance to start with Python 🙂 –Michael ---
**Author:** ![jno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@jno](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jno)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/4 "2012-06-15T18:01:04Z")
Thank you for the quick reply. And yes you were right assuming I was running from devel, sorry for not mentioning that. The fix was almost to easy, just one wrong character 🙂 After changing from results to result it works fine! I will file a ticket on that. Just a quick additional question regarding the raw module? Is it supposed to write output char by char instead of line by line like the normal command mode? //Jon ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/5 "2012-06-15T18:02:33Z")
Character by character? I don’t know what you mean with that. if it’s splitting the contents or something into arrays of characters or something, no, definitely not. ---
**Author:** ![jno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@jno](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jno)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/6 "2012-06-15T19:14:30Z")
I'm not sure exactly how to explain it but it looks like it outputs a long line och characters instead of lines with linebreaks. Like this output from ls -l /boot first in normal command mode: mytesthost | success | rc=0 \>\> total 18454 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420395 2009-09-18 21:02 abi-2.6.24-24-server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74171 2009-09-18 21:02 config-2.6.24-24- server drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-10-19 17:17 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7567363 2011-10-05 11:19 initrd.img-2.6.24-24- server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7536605 2011-08-17 13:31 initrd.img-2.6.24-24- server.bak drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2009-08-31 12:54 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103204 2007-09-28 13:03 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1163963 2009-09-18 21:02 System.map-2.6.24-24- server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1932632 2009-09-18 21:02 vmlinuz-2.6.24-24- server and then in raw mode: mytesthost | success \>\> {     "stdout": "total 18454\r\n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420395 2009-09-18 21:02 abi-2.6.24-24-server\r\n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74171 2009-09-18 21:02 config-2.6.24-24-server\r\n\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-10-19 17:17 grub\r\n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7567363 2011-10-05 11:19 initrd.img-2.6.24-24-server\r\n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7536605 2011-08-17 13:31 initrd.img-2.6.24-24-server.bak\r\n \ndrwx------ 2 root root 12288 2009-08-31 12:54 lost+found\r\n\n-rw- r--r-- 1 root root 103204 2007-09-28 13:03 memtest86+.bin\r\n\n-rw-r-- r-- 1 root root 1163963 2009-09-18 21:02 System.map-2.6.24-24-server\r \n\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1932632 2009-09-18 21:02 vmlinuz-2.6.24-24- server\r\n" } It's nothing serious, I mean the command is working now, it just looks a bit weird. It may also be Ansible on my machine that is not working correctly. I think I did run both make install, make debian and hacking/env-setup. What is the best way to completely erase all traces of Ansible and start all over with a fresh install again? //Jon ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/7 "2012-06-15T19:16:39Z")
oh all the literal newlines. That can be fixed, I’m sure. patches welcome (hint, hint) ---
**Author:** ![Timothy\_Appnel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Timothy\_Appnel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Timothy_Appnel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/8 "2012-06-15T19:34:47Z")
I saw this too and thought that was the intent of raw. I thought that was the primary difference between raw and shell – one encoded break while another did not. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-raw-connections/11616/9 "2012-06-15T19:52:41Z")
Nope, not the intent. It is nothing except raw does not require Python, as is explained in the docs. – Michael