Shell or Command module hangs and won't finish

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Hello,

I am trying to run a simple bash script and it works fine on the command line. When I run it using the shell or command module it simply hangs and
never finishes. Tried to run using the shell or command module, tried to /dev/null, sleep and using timeout. Nothing seems to work and I am
out of ideas?

Thanks!

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the script might not be detaching, have you tried using the script module?

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The script is being run on the remote machine, script don’t think will apply here.

Thanks!

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Another problem is with bringing up a chromium-browser, wrote a little script and it works fine. But when I run it using the shell module I get the following:

Gtk: cannot open display

Made sure that export DISPLAY=:0 is in the script, also tried to run a task to export, it simply does not work. Anyone tried to bring up a chrome browser on a remote machine?

Thanks!

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in ansible use the environment: keyword for that task to set display

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Ok so I got everything pretty much running. Had to use environment to set the shell variable and chromium-browser has to be run in async mode. It seems
that async mode is in seconds, is there a way to specify hours or days? Or is there a better way to run a command and not close it?

Thanks!