Running playbook in interactive mode breaks upon run

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ansible-playbook -i hosts test.yml --step

Output:

PLAY [webservers] *************************************************************
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/deployment/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 316, in
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
File “/home/deployment/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 256, in main
pb.run()
File “/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 352, in run
if not self._run_play(play):
File “/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 796, in _run_play
if not self._run_task(play, task, False):
File “/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 487, in _run_task
self.callbacks.on_task_start(name, is_handler)
File “/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/callbacks.py”, line 637, in on_task_start
msg = msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors=‘replace’)
TypeError: encode() takes no keyword arguments

test.yml

  • hosts: webservers
    gather_facts: no

vars_files:

  • “group_vars/deploy_list_sam”

pre_tasks:

  • name: disable service in the lb
    netscaler: nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=disable validate_certs=no
    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
    tags: ns_remove_web

roles:

  • web

post_tasks:

  • name: enable in the lb
    netscaler: nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=enable validate_certs=no
    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
    tags: ns_add_web
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FYI. Ansible version is 1.8.2 and I tried it from the devel branch.

3

Could you update your devel branch checkout and try it again? I found the issue and think I committed a fix for it. Just would like confirmation :slight_smile:

-Toshio

4

Awesome! Works!

Thank you

5

I am getting a similar error when running my playbook with ‘–step’ with Ansible 1.8.4:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/dse/dse text.yml

PLAY [all] ********************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [dse02]
ok: [twp01]

TASK: [common | Build inventory group] ****************************************
ok: [dse02] => (item=dse02)
ok: [dse02] => (item=twp01)

TASK: [common | Reload facts after updating site group] ***********************
ok: [dse02]
ok: [twp01]

TASK: [common | Set JBoss facts] **********************************************
skipping: [dse02]
skipping: [twp01]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
dse02 : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0
twp01 : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/dse/dse test.yml --step

PLAY [all] ********************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [twp01]
ok: [dse02]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 326, in
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
File “/usr/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 266, in main
pb.run()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 347, in run
if not self._run_play(play):
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 740, in _run_play
if not self._run_task(play, task, False):
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/init.py”, line 474, in _run_task
self.callbacks.on_task_start(template(play.basedir, name, task.module_vars, lookup_fatal=False, filter_fatal=False), is_handler)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/callbacks.py”, line 636, in on_task_start
msg = msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors=‘replace’)
TypeError: encode() takes no keyword arguments

test.yml

  • hosts: all
    roles:
  • common