Synchronize command not working when upgraded to Ansible 2.1.0

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Hi,
We were recently upgraded to Ansible 2.1.0, from 1.9.4 (I think). Now have an issue with any playbooks that make use of the synchronize module. I have a a test playbook that simply copies a text file from Host A to Host B and the job is delegated to Host C.

cat test_connectivity.yml

  • name: Copy the text file from /home/triarch/ansible_test.txt to target host to check ansible connectivity
    hosts: ‘{{ target }}’
    remote_user: triarch
    gather_facts: no

tasks:

  • name: copy over the test text file to /home/triarch
    synchronize: mode=push src=/tmp/ansible_test.txt dest=/home/triarch
    delegate_to: HostC

Output from running the playbook is;

[root@HostB]# ansible-playbook test_connectivity.yml --extra-vars “target=HostB” -vvv
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
1 plays in test_connectivity.yml

PLAY [Copy the text file from /home/triarch/ansible_test.txt to target host to check ansible connectivity] ***

TASK [copy over the test text file to /hostname/triarch] ***********************
task path: /mnt/ansible/playbooks/mdi/test/test_connectivity.yml:7
ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: triarch
SSH: EXEC ssh -C -q -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=triarch -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt HostC’/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘( umask 22 && mkdir -p “echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1467723381.55-23670874385865” && echo “echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1467723381.55-23670874385865” )’”‘"’’
PUT /tmp/tmpL7jmA3 TO /home/triarch/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1467723381.55-23670874385865/synchronize
SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=triarch -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r ‘[HostC]’
ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: triarch
SSH: EXEC ssh -C -q -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=triarch -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -tt HostC’/bin/sh -c ‘"’“‘LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/triarch/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1467723381.55-23670874385865/synchronize; rm -rf “/home/triarch/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1467723381.55-23670874385865/” > /dev/null 2>&1’”‘"’’
fatal: [HostB-> HostC]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “cmd”: “/usr/bin/rsync --delay-updates -F --compress --archive --rsh ‘/etc/ssh -S none -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o Port=22’ --out-format=‘<>%i %n%L’ "/tmp/ansible_test.txt" "HostB:/home/triarch"”, “failed”: true, “invocation”: {“module_args”: {“_local_rsync_path”: “rsync”, “_substitute_controller”: false, “archive”: true, “checksum”: false, “compress”: true, “copy_links”: null, “delete”: false, “dest”: “HostB:/home/triarch”, “dest_port”: “22”, “dirs”: false, “existing_only”: false, “group”: null, “links”: null, “mode”: “push”, “owner”: null, “partial”: false, “perms”: null, “private_key”: null, “recursive”: null, “rsync_opts”: null, “rsync_path”: null, “rsync_timeout”: 0, “set_remote_user”: true, “src”: “/tmp/ansible_test.txt”, “ssh_args”: null, “times”: null, “verify_host”: false}}, “msg”: “rsync: Failed to exec /etc/ssh: Permission denied (13)\nrsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(84) [sender=3.0.4]\nrsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]\nrsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at io.c(632) [sender=3.0.4]\n”, “rc”: 14}

NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @test_connectivity.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
HostB : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mick

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Hi Mick,

The docs say that using push mode, the delegate is the source of the sync. So, your task is trying to ssh from HostC (the delegate) to HostB. Can these two hosts talk to each other? Maybe you meant to delegate_to: HostA?

Joanna

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Something is screwy :

"Failed to exec /etc/ssh: Permission denied"