# seemingly random Failed to parse JSON on setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 2, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043 "2013-12-02T18:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/1 "2013-12-02T18:54:38Z")
In different parts of ansible -m setup, I’ll get varying degrees of the “Failed to parse JSON” message, randomly at different parts, and sometimes not at all. If I add “-f 1”, it appears to work properly. I found the following link which seems to describe my issue: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/801](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/801) The JSON returned seems truncated randomly. I am using the latest git development revision (95557da373fb6daf5f41e02310d03abea82e2d0a) Any ideas? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/2 "2013-12-02T19:00:09Z")
ansible --version? Some issues with this were addressed in 1.4.1 This is not the same ticket as 801 as that is hopelessly ancient. We’d also like to see your playbook, I think, and the command line you were using. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/3 "2013-12-02T19:01:38Z")
BTW, any chance you are configuring the same host multiple times, like if you had localhost in inventory with different aliases? (If you try to talk to the same remote host 50 times over SSH that can sometimes hit the SSH connection limit to the host, etc, and I’m not sure how you are testing things) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/4 "2013-12-02T19:14:07Z")
Version I’m using: ansible 1.5 (devel 6d80c50faf) last updated 2013/12/02 12:50:12 (GMT -500) Command that is sometimes not working: ansible -i setup/hosts-prod all -m setup or command that is working: ansible -i setup/hosts-prod all -m setup -f 1 Here’s my inventory file: # myapp Production Ansible hosts ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/5 "2013-12-02T19:16:07Z")
Can we see the playbook? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/6 "2013-12-02T19:19:58Z")
I’m not using a playbook for this to occur, just the setup command: ansible -i setup/hosts-prod all -m setup ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/7 "2013-12-02T20:51:38Z")
What is the full output from one of the failed hosts? I’d like to see the actual errors. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Keating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jesse\_Keating](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jesse_Keating)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/8 "2013-12-02T22:00:04Z")
This sounds exactly like the issue I filed the other day: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5082](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5082) As the issue states this started happening with 1.4, and it does not happen with 1.3.4 -jlk ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/9 "2013-12-02T22:06:43Z")
Here is the full output from the command with the SSH keys replaced with “REMOVED” and IPaddresses changed. failed to parse json: {“verbose\_override”: true, “changed”: false, “ansible\_facts”: {“ohai\_chef\_packages”: {“chef”: {“chef\_root”: “/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/chef-11.6.0/lib”, “version”: “11.6.0”}, “ohai”: {“version”: “6.18.0”, “ohai\_root”: “/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-6.18.0/lib/ohai”}}, “ohai\_lsb”: {“release”: “12.04”, “codename”: “precise”, “id”: “Ubuntu”, “description”: “Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS”}, “ohai\_cpu”: {“real”: 1, “1”: {“model”: “26”, “family”: “6”, “core\_id”: “0”, “vendor\_id”: “GenuineIntel”, “flags”: [“fpu”, “de”, “tsc”, “msr”, “pae”, “cx8”, “sep”, “cmov”, “pat”, “clflush”, “mmx”, “fxsr”, “sse”, “sse2”, “ss”, “ht”, “syscall”, “nx”, “lm”, “constant\_tsc”, “rep\_good”, “nopl”, “nonstop\_tsc”, “pni”, “ssse3”, “cx16”, “sse4\_1”, “sse4\_2”, “popcnt”, “hypervisor”, “lahf\_lm”], “mhz”: “2666.760”, “stepping”: “5”, “cache\_size”: “8192 KB”, “cores”: “1”, “physical\_id”: “0”, “model\_name”: “Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz”}, “0”: {“model”: “26”, “family”: “6”, “core\_id”: “0”, “vendor\_id”: “GenuineIntel”, “flags”: [“fpu”, “de”, “tsc”, “msr”, “pae”, “cx8”, “sep”, “cmov”, “pat”, “clflush”, “mmx”, “fxsr”, “sse”, “sse2”, “ss”, “ht”, “syscall”, “nx”, “lm”, “constant\_tsc”, “rep\_good”, “nopl”, “nonstop\_tsc”, “pni”, “ssse3”, “cx16”, “sse4\_1”, “sse4\_2”, “popcnt”, “hypervisor”, “lahf\_lm”], “mhz”: “2666.760”, “stepping”: “5”, “cache\_size”: “8192 KB”, “cores”: “1”, “physical\_id”: “0”, “model\_name”: “Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz”}, “3”: {“model”: “26”, “family”: “6”, “core\_id”: “0”, “vendor\_id”: “GenuineIntel”, “flags”: [“fpu”, “de”, “tsc”, “msr”, “pae”, “cx8”, “sep”, “cmov”, “pat”, “clflush”, “mmx”, “fxsr”, “sse”, “sse2”, “ss”, “ht”, “syscall”, “nx”, “lm”, “constant\_tsc”, “rep\_good”, “nopl”, “nonstop\_tsc”, “pni”, “ssse3”, “cx16”, “sse4\_1”, “sse4\_2”, “popcnt”, “hypervisor”, “lahf\_lm”], “mhz”: “2666.760”, “stepping”: “5”, “cache\_size”: “8192 KB”, “cores”: “1”, “physical\_id”: “0”, “model\_name”: “Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz”}, “2”: {“model”: “26”, “family”: “6”, “core\_id”: “0”, “vendor\_id”: “GenuineIntel”, “flags”: [“fpu”, “de”, “tsc”, “msr”, “pae”, “cx8”, “sep”, “cmov”, “pat”, “clflush”, “mmx”, “fxsr”, “sse”, “sse2”, “ss”, “ht”, “syscall”, “nx”, “lm”, “constant\_tsc”, “rep\_good”, “nopl”, “nonstop\_tsc”, “pni”, “ssse3”, “cx16”, “sse4\_1”, “sse4\_2”, “popcnt”, “hypervisor”, “lahf\_lm”], “mhz”: “2666.760”, “stepping”: “5”, “cache\_size”: “8192 KB”, “cores”: “1”, “physical\_id”: “0”, “model\_name”: “Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz”}, “total”: 4}, “ohai\_ipaddress”: “10.10.10.71”, “ansible\_form\_factor”: “NA”, “ohai\_root\_group”: “root”, “ansible\_product\_version”: “NA”, “ansible\_swaptotal\_mb”: 34236, “ansible\_user\_id”: “myapp”, “ohai\_macaddress”: “0E:A2:CD:3F:CE:7A”, “ansible\_userspace\_bits”: “64”, “ansible\_architecture”: “x86\_64”, “ohai\_block\_device”: {“ram14”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram15”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram12”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram13”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram10”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram11”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “xvdf”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “419430400”}, “xvdg”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “419430400”}, “xvdb”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “1761475584”}, “ram8”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram9”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram4”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram5”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram6”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram7”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram0”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram1”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram2”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “ram3”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “131072”}, “loop3”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop2”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop1”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop0”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop7”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop6”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop5”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “loop4”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “0”}, “xvda1”: {“removable”: “0”, “size”: “16777216”}}, “ansible\_distribution\_version”: “12.04”, “ansible\_domain”: “[prodauth2.mydomain.com](http://prodauth2.mydomain.com)”, “ansible\_virtualization\_type”: “xen”, “ansible\_fqdn”: “[host.mydomain.com](http://host.mydomain.com)”, “ansible\_product\_serial”: “NA”, “ansible\_virtualization\_role”: “guest”, “ohai\_hostname”: “i-0eae6d70”, “ansible\_env”: {“LANG”: “C”, “TERM”: “xterm”, “SHELL”: “/bin/bash”, “MAIL”: “/var/mail/myapp”, “SHLVL”: “1”, “SSH\_TTY”: “/dev/pts/0”, “SSH\_CLIENT”: “10.10.10.169 54535 22”, “PWD”: “/home/myapp”, “LOGNAME”: “myapp”, “USER”: “myapp”, “HOME”: “/home/myapp”, “PATH”: “/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games”, “JAVA\_HOME”: “/usr/lib/jvm/default-java”, “\_”: “/bin/sh”, “SSH\_CONNECTION”: “10.10.10.169 54535 10.10.10.71 22”}, “ansible\_processor\_vcpus”: 4, “ohai\_virtualization”: {“role”: “guest”, “system”: “xen”}, “ansible\_bios\_version”: “NA”, “ohai\_etc”: {“passwd”: {“sync”: {“shell”: “/bin/sync”, “gid”: 65534, “gecos”: “sync”, “uid”: 4, “dir”: “/bin”}, “syslog”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 103, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 101, “dir”: “/home/syslog”}, “gnats”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 41, “gecos”: “Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin)”, “uid”: 41, “dir”: “/var/lib/gnats”}, “myapp”: {“shell”: “/bin/bash”, “gid”: 1001, “gecos”: “Auto-created myapp service account”, “uid”: 1001, “dir”: “/home/myapp”}, “logcheck”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 116, “gecos”: “logcheck system account,”, “uid”: 108, “dir”: “/var/lib/logcheck”}, “uucp”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 10, “gecos”: “uucp”, “uid”: 10, “dir”: “/var/spool/uucp”}, “landscape”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 109, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 104, “dir”: “/var/lib/landscape”}, “lp”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 7, “gecos”: “lp”, “uid”: 7, “dir”: “/var/spool/lpd”}, “mail”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 8, “gecos”: “mail”, “uid”: 8, “dir”: “/var/mail”}, “ganglia”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 999, “gecos”: “Ganglia Monitor”, “uid”: 999, “dir”: “/var/lib/ganglia”}, “irc”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 39, “gecos”: “ircd”, “uid”: 39, “dir”: “/var/run/ircd”}, “bin”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 2, “gecos”: “bin”, “uid”: 2, “dir”: “/bin”}, “messagebus”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 105, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 102, “dir”: “/var/run/dbus”}, “ntp”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 115, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 107, “dir”: “/home/ntp”}, “whoopsie”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 106, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 103, “dir”: “/nonexistent”}, “nobody”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 65534, “gecos”: “nobody”, “uid”: 65534, “dir”: “/nonexistent”}, “sshd”: {“shell”: “/usr/sbin/nologin”, “gid”: 65534, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 105, “dir”: “/var/run/sshd”}, “sys”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 3, “gecos”: “sys”, “uid”: 3, “dir”: “/dev”}, “proxy”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 13, “gecos”: “proxy”, “uid”: 13, “dir”: “/bin”}, “ubuntu”: {“shell”: “/bin/bash”, “gid”: 1000, “gecos”: “Ubuntu”, “uid”: 1000, “dir”: “/home/ubuntu”}, “news”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 9, “gecos”: “news”, “uid”: 9, “dir”: “/var/spool/news”}, “man”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 12, “gecos”: “man”, “uid”: 6, “dir”: “/var/cache/man”}, “daemon”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 1, “gecos”: “daemon”, “uid”: 1, “dir”: “/usr/sbin”}, “postfix”: {“shell”: “/bin/false”, “gid”: 113, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 106, “dir”: “/var/spool/postfix”}, “root”: {“shell”: “/bin/bash”, “gid”: 0, “gecos”: “root”, “uid”: 0, “dir”: “/root”}, “libuuid”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 101, “gecos”: “”, “uid”: 100, “dir”: “/var/lib/libuuid”}, “list”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 38, “gecos”: “Mailing List Manager”, “uid”: 38, “dir”: “/var/list”}, “games”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 60, “gecos”: “games”, “uid”: 5, “dir”: “/usr/games”}, “www-data”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 33, “gecos”: “www-data”, “uid”: 33, “dir”: “/var/www”}, “backup”: {“shell”: “/bin/sh”, “gid”: 34, “gecos”: “backup”, “uid”: 34, “dir”: “/var/backups”}}, “group”: {“tty”: {“gid”: 5, “members”: }, “plugdev”: {“gid”: 46, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “sudo”: {“gid”: 27, “members”: }, “mlocate”: {“gid”: 107, “members”: }, “crontab”: {“gid”: 102, “members”: }, “adm”: {“gid”: 4, “members”: [“ubuntu”, “logcheck”]}, “syslog”: {“gid”: 103, “members”: }, “video”: {“gid”: 44, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “operator”: {“gid”: 37, “members”: }, “root”: {“gid”: 0, “members”: }, “myapp”: {“gid”: 1001, “members”: }, “disk”: {“gid”: 6, “members”: }, “gnats”: {“gid”: 41, “members”: }, “logcheck”: {“gid”: 116, “members”: }, “staff”: {“gid”: 50, “members”: }, “uucp”: {“gid”: 10, “members”: }, “admin”: {“gid”: 111, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “utmp”: {“gid”: 43, “members”: }, “tape”: {“gid”: 26, “members”: }, “landscape”: {“gid”: 109, “members”: }, “lp”: {“gid”: 7, “members”: }, “dialout”: {“gid”: 20, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “mail”: {“gid”: 8, “members”: }, “ganglia”: {“gid”: 999, “members”: }, “irc”: {“gid”: 39, “members”: }, “whoopsie”: {“gid”: 106, “members”: }, “bin”: {“gid”: 2, “members”: }, “fax”: {“gid”: 21, “members”: }, “users”: {“gid”: 100, “members”: }, “messagebus”: {“gid”: 105, “members”: }, “floppy”: {“gid”: 25, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “ntp”: {“gid”: 115, “members”: }, “kmem”: {“gid”: 15, “members”: }, “sys”: {“gid”: 3, “members”: }, “fuse”: {“gid”: 104, “members”: }, “proxy”: {“gid”: 13, “members”: }, “ubuntu”: {“gid”: 1000, “members”: }, “cdrom”: {“gid”: 24, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “news”: {“gid”: 9, “members”: }, “shadow”: {“gid”: 42, “members”: }, “postdrop”: {“gid”: 114, “members”: }, “man”: {“gid”: 12, “members”: }, “src”: {“gid”: 40, “members”: }, “daemon”: {“gid”: 1, “members”: }, “audio”: {“gid”: 29, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “nogroup”: {“gid”: 65534, “members”: }, “postfix”: {“gid”: 113, “members”: }, “backup”: {“gid”: 34, “members”: }, “libuuid”: {“gid”: 101, “members”: }, “list”: {“gid”: 38, “members”: }, “netdev”: {“gid”: 110, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “games”: {“gid”: 60, “members”: }, “www-data”: {“gid”: 33, “members”: }, “sasl”: {“gid”: 45, “members”: }, “voice”: {“gid”: 22, “members”: }, “dip”: {“gid”: 30, “members”: [“ubuntu”]}, “ssl-cert”: {“gid”: 112, “members”: }, “ssh”: {“gid”: 108, “members”: }}}, “ansible\_date\_time”: {“tz”: “UTC”, “hour”: “21”, “time”: “21:55:23”, “epoch”: “1386021323”, “month”: “12”, “tz\_offset”: “+0000”, “second”: “23”, “iso8601\_micro”: “2013-12-02T21:55:23.439470Z”, “year”: “2013”, “date”: “2013-12-02”, “iso8601”: “2013-12-02T21:55:23Z”, “day”: “02”, “minute”: “55”}, “ansible\_lo”: {“ipv4\_secondaries”: , “mtu”: 16436, “active”: true, “promisc”: false, “ipv4”: {“netmask”: “255.0.0.0”, “network”: “127.0.0.0”, “address”: “127.0.0.1”}, “ipv6”: [{“scope”: “host”, “prefix”: “128”, “address”: “::1”}], “device”: “lo”, “type”: “loopback”}, “ohai\_network”: {“interfaces”: {“lo”: {“encapsulation”: “Loopback”, “state”: “unknown”, “flags”: [“LOOPBACK”, “UP”, “LOWER\_UP”], “addresses”: {“::1”: {“prefixlen”: “128”, “scope”: “Node”, “family”: “inet6”}, “127.0.0.1”: {“prefixlen”: “8”, “scope”: “Node”, “netmask”: “255.0.0.0”, “family”: “inet”}}, “mtu”: “16436”}, “eth0”: {“arp”: {“10.10.10.1”: “0e:a2:cd:00:00:02”, “10.10.10.185”: “0e:a2:cd:32:4a:fa”, “10.10.10.98”: “0e:a2:cd:07:35:a0”, “10.10.10.209”: “0e:a2:cd:1c:81:59”, “10.10.10.251”: “0e:a2:cd:15:27:bc”, “10.10.10.82”: “0e:a2:cd:28:52:20”, “10.10.10.97”: “0e:a2:cd:0e:a4:df”}, “addresses”: {“10.10.10.71”: {“broadcast”: “10.10.10.255”, “scope”: “Global”, “netmask”: “255.255.255.0”, “prefixlen”: “24”, “family”: “inet”}, “fe80::ca2:cdff:fe3f:ce7a”: {“prefixlen”: “64”, “scope”: “Link”, “family”: “inet6”}, “0E:A2:CD:3F:CE:7A”: {“family”: “lladdr”}}, “number”: “0”, “mtu”: “1500”, “state”: “up”, “flags”: [“BROADCAST”, “MULTICAST”, “UP”, “LOWER\_UP”], “routes”: [{“via”: “10.10.10.1”, “metric”: “100”, “destination”: “default”, “family”: “inet”}, {“src”: 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port, complex\_args=complex\_args)** **File “/home/e9000718/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 685, in \_executor\_internal\_inner** **result = handler.run(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject, complex\_args)** **File “/home/e9000718/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/action\_plugins/normal.py”, line 54, in run** **return self.runner.\_execute\_module(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject=inject, complex\_args=complex\_args)** **File “/home/e9000718/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 369, in \_execute\_module** **data = utils.parse\_json(res[‘stdout’])** **File “/home/e9000718/ansible/lib/ansible/utils/init.py”, line 306, in parse\_json** **tokens = shlex.split(data)** **File “/usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py”, line 279, in split** **return list(lex)** **File “/usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py”, line 269, in next** **token = self.get\_token()** **File “/usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py”, line 96, in get\_token** **raw = self.read\_token()** **File “/usr/lib/python2.7/shlex.py”, line 172, in read\_token** **raise ValueError, “No closing quotation”** **ValueError: No closing quotation** ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/10 "2013-12-02T22:14:54Z")
Yes, this appears to be the same issue from the outside looks of things. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/11 "2013-12-03T04:01:47Z")
We are digging into this, stay tuned! – Michael ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Hassinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Paul\_Hassinger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hassinger)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/12 "2013-12-12T16:10:43Z")
Just to follow up on this thread for any future searchers… this appears to be resolved for me, now, with the following: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5082](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5082) Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/13 "2013-12-12T16:51:52Z")
Glad to hear that! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/seemingly-random-failed-to-parse-json-on-setup/14043/14 "2013-12-12T18:11:02Z")
BTW, our plans are to release this as a 1.4.2 with our special Ansible-users Christmas present, approximately Wednesday of next week. Extra testing is welcome!