# Problems with the ec2\_vol task **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [April 29, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-with-the-ec2-vol-task/15112 "2014-04-29T17:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Hunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Bryan\_Hunt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bryan_Hunt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-with-the-ec2-vol-task/15112/1 "2014-04-29T17:56:22Z")
I'm wondering if I am misusing the ec2\_vol task or if I've found a bug. In my playbook, I create 5 ec2 instances. I then try to attach volumes to them. tasks:      - name: get em runnning        local\_action:         module: ec2         region: "{{ region }}"         group: "{{ security\_group }}"         instance\_type : "{{ instance\_type}}"         image: "{{ image }}"         keypair: "{{ keypair }}"         wait: yes         instance\_tags:             Name: installtype             value: riak         exact\_count: 5         count\_tag:             Name: installtype             value: riak        register: ec2      - name: debug those instance id's        debug: msg="{{item}}"        with\_items: ec2.instances        when: ec2.instances      - name: attach big volumes        local\_action: ec2\_vol instance="{{item.id}}" volume\_size=5 region="{{region}}"        with\_items: ec2.instances        register: ec2\_vol        when: ec2.instances But everything explodes, with a python exception in "ec2.get\_password\_data(inst.id)". I'm running the latest from the devel branch. Best Regards, Bryan Hunt TASK: [attach big volumes] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* \<127.0.0.1\> REMOTE\_MODULE ec2\_vol instance="{u'kernel': u'aki-88aa75e1', u'root\_device\_type': u'ebs', u'private\_dns\_name': u'ip-172-31-28-55.ec2.internal', u'public\_ip': u'54.86.133.228', u'private\_ip': u'172.31.28.55', u'id': u'i-943df4c4', u'ebs\_optimized': False, u'state': u'running', u'virtualization\_type': u'paravirtual', u'architecture': u'x86\_64', u'ramdisk': None, u'key\_name': u'rtcloud', u'image\_id': u'ami-a73264ce', u'public\_dns\_name': u'ec2-54-86-133-228.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'state\_code': 16, u'placement': u'us-east-1b', u'ami\_launch\_inde x': u'1', u'dns\_name': u'ec2-54-86-133-228.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'us-east-1', u'launch\_time': u'2014-04-29T17:00:41.000Z', u'instance\_type': u'm1.small', u'root\_device\_nam e': u'/dev/sda1', u'hypervisor': u'xen'}" volume\_size=5 region="us-east-1" \<127.0.0.1\> EXEC ['/bin/sh', '-c', 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05-68270196266360 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05-68270196266360 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05-68270196266360'] \<127.0.0.1\> PUT /var/folders/bk/cmtcbxsj3rdfjqhjswd\_zbg80000gp/T/tmp7nC5zp TO /Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05-68270196266360/ec2\_vol \<127.0.0.1\> EXEC ['/bin/sh', '-c', '/usr/bin/python /Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05-68270196266360/ec2\_vol; rm -rf /Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398790871.05- 68270196266360/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1'] failed: [localhost] =\> (item={u'kernel': u'aki-88aa75e1', u'root\_device\_type': u'ebs', u'private\_dns\_name': u'ip-172-31-0-177.ec2.internal', u'public\_ip': u'54.86.70.53', u'private\_ip': u'172 .31.0.177', u'id': u'i-9841adcb', u'ebs\_optimized': False, u'state': u'running', u'virtualization\_type': u'paravirtual', u'architecture': u'x86\_64', u'ramdisk': None, u'key\_name': u'rtcloud', u'image\_id': u'ami-a73264ce', u'public\_dns\_name': u'ec2-54-86-70-53.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'state\_code': 16, u'placement': u'us-east-1c', u'ami\_launch\_index': u'0', u'dns\_name': u'ec2-54 -86-70-53.compute-1.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'us-east-1', u'launch\_time': u'2014-04-29T17:36:56.000Z', u'instance\_type': u'm1.small', u'root\_device\_name': u'/dev/sda1', u'hypervisor': u'xe n'}) =\> {"failed": true, "item": {"ami\_launch\_index": "0", "architecture": "x86\_64", "dns\_name": "ec2-54-86-70-53.compute-1.amazonaws.com", "ebs\_optimized": false, "hypervisor": "xen", "id": "i-9841adcb", "image\_id": "ami-a73264ce", "instance\_type": "m1.small", "kernel": "aki-88aa75e1", "key\_name": "rtcloud", "launch\_time": "2014-04-29T17:36:56.000Z", "placement": "us-east-1c", $ private\_dns\_name": "ip-172-31-0-177.ec2.internal", "private\_ip": "172.31.0.177", "public\_dns\_name": "ec2-54-86-70-53.compute-1.amazonaws.com", "public\_ip": "54.86.70.53", "ramdisk": null, "r$ gion": "us-east-1", "root\_device\_name": "/dev/sda1", "root\_device\_type": "ebs", "state": "running", "state\_code": 16, "virtualization\_type": "paravirtual"}, "parsed": false} invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398793058.53-263257413843937/ec2\_vol", line 1722, in \     main()   File "/Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398793058.53-263257413843937/ec2\_vol", line 353, in main     attach\_volume(module, ec2, volume, inst)   File "/Users/bryan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1398793058.53-263257413843937/ec2\_vol", line 281, in attach\_volume     if not ec2.get\_password\_data(inst.id): NameError: global name 'inst' is not defined ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-with-the-ec2-vol-task/15112/2 "2014-04-29T19:40:05Z")
That would seem to be a bug, could you open a github issue for this? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Scott\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Scott_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-with-the-ec2-vol-task/15112/3 "2014-05-01T01:15:30Z")
Note that this bug is fixed as part of my repeatability pull request for ec2\_vol: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7171](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7171) Regards, -scott