# su works on Debian Lenny but not on Debian Wheezy **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 19, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500 "2014-06-19T11:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Holger\_Seidenberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/67e7ee/32.png) [@Holger\_Seidenberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Holger_Seidenberg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500/1 "2014-06-19T11:06:19Z")
I have a strange problem with new wheezy machines on lenny ist works ansible backuppc -a ’ whoami’ -u seidenberg --su -k --ask-su-pass -vvvv SSH password: su password: ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: seidenberg REMOTE\_MODULE command whoami EXEC [‘sshpass’, ‘-d6’, ‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘GSSAPIAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PubkeyAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=seidenberg’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘backuppc’, “/bin/bash -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621’”] PUT /tmp/tmpnf8Bgw TO /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621/command EXEC [‘sshpass’, ‘-d6’, ‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘GSSAPIAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PubkeyAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=seidenberg’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘backuppc’, u’/bin/sh -c 'su root -c “/bin/bash -c '”'“'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-fjzbciovcdglcnwocbbsllvqypcuhcrb; LC\_CTYPE=C LANG=C /usr/bin/python /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621/command; rm -rf /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175163.97-279315252950621/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1'”'“'”''] backuppc | success | rc=0 \>\> root on wheezy it hangs for a long time ansible seidenberg1 -a ’ whoami’ -u seidenberg --su -k --ask-su-pass -vvvv SSH password: su password: ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: seidenberg REMOTE\_MODULE command whoami EXEC [‘sshpass’, ‘-d6’, ‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘GSSAPIAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PubkeyAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=seidenberg’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘seidenberg1’, “/bin/bash -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768’”] PUT /tmp/tmpKbeTEM TO /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768/command EXEC [‘sshpass’, ‘-d6’, ‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘StrictHostKeyChecking=no’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘GSSAPIAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PubkeyAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=seidenberg’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘seidenberg1’, u’/bin/sh -c 'su root -c “/bin/bash -c '”'“'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-piguunfptuenxfyxauqmavtunfzjnayk; LC\_CTYPE=C LANG=C /usr/bin/python /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768/command; rm -rf /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1'”'“'”''] after ctrl c ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/ansible”, line 5, in pkg\_resources.run\_script(‘ansible==1.7’, ‘ansible’) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources.py”, line 499, in run\_script self.require(requires)[0].run\_script(script\_name, ns) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources.py”, line 1235, in run\_script execfile(script\_filename, namespace, namespace) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/ansible”, line 221, in (runner, results) = cli.run(options, args) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/ansible”, line 195, in run results = runner.run() File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 1246, in run results = [self.\_executor(h, None) for h in hosts] File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 543, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 645, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 839, in \_executor\_internal\_inner result = handler.run(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject, complex\_args) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/action\_plugins/normal.py”, line 57, in run return self.runner.\_execute\_module(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject=inject, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 506, in \_execute\_module res = self.\_low\_level\_exec\_command(conn, cmd, tmp, su=True, in\_data=in\_data) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 974, in \_low\_level\_exec\_command in\_data=in\_data) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.7-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/ssh.py”, line 341, in exec\_command stdout = p.communicate() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 754, in communicate return self.\_communicate(input) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 1322, in \_communicate stdout, stderr = self.\_communicate\_with\_poll(input) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 1376, in \_communicate\_with\_poll ready = poller.poll() KeyboardInterrupt please can you explain how to debug the wheezy problem regards Holger ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500/2 "2014-06-19T14:14:11Z")
It seems like it’s waiting for the password prompt, due to the format of the prompt not matching what we’re expecting. Could you execute the command via su on the system and report back what the password prompt is? We can open an issue for this as well and get the regex updated so it will match the password prompt going forward. ---
**Author:** ![Holger\_Seidenberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/67e7ee/32.png) [@Holger\_Seidenberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Holger_Seidenberg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500/3 "2014-06-19T16:53:36Z")
Ok the command via su on Lenny seidenberg@backupPC:~$ su root -c /bin/bash -c echo SUDO-SUCCESS-piguunfptuenxfyxauqmavtunfzjnayk; LC\_CTYPE=C LANG=C /usr/bin/python /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768/command Password: and the command on wheezy seidenberg@seidenberg1:~$ su root -c /bin/bash -c echo SUDO-SUCCESS-piguunfptuenxfyxauqmavtunfzjnayk; LC\_CTYPE=C LANG=C /usr/bin/python /home/seidenberg/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403175187.6-175350529956768/command Password: ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500/4 "2014-06-19T18:09:54Z")
Interesting, no obvious difference there. ---
**Author:** ![Holger\_Seidenberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/67e7ee/32.png) [@Holger\_Seidenberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Holger_Seidenberg)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/su-works-on-debian-lenny-but-not-on-debian-wheezy/15500/5 "2014-06-20T05:53:58Z")
ok what else can i do to investigate the problem ?