I just came across something I find strange:
- name: Enable the enabled-runtime service using shell command
shell: systemctl enable --runtime baz
The next task:
- name: Enable enabled-runtime service
systemd:
name: baz.service
enabled: true
register: baz_test_1
is this the same workaround as in
I copied some and tried to run them, seems one failed:
TASK [sysmd : assert] *********************************************************************************************
task path: /home/carl/src/bug_reports/absd/ansible/roles/sysmd/tasks/test_enabled_runtime.yml:42
fatal: [pi3]: FAILED! => {
"assertion": "baz_test_1 is changed",
"changed": false,
"evaluated_to": false,
"msg": "Assertion failed"
}
PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************
pi3 : ok=24 changed=6 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=2
I fixed it:
- name: Enable the enabled-runtime service using shell command
- shell: systemctl enable --runtime baz
+ shell: systemctl disable --runtime baz
I’m still not sure what is going on.
Doesn’t the service also need to be started?
- name: Enable and start enabled-runtime service
ansible.builtin.systemd_service:
name: baz.service
enabled: true
state: started
I haven’t read all the messages on Element and I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to do, but from what I’ve seen in the systemd_service module’s code, the --runtime functions are not supported by the module.
You can set user mode and enable the service, but it will not use the --runtime function.
user mode is implemented by appending the appropriate flag to the systemctl command. In the code, you’ll see this right after retrieving systemctl’s binary
So if you set scope: user, the command becomes systemctl --user …, which runs the service in the current user’s context.
The service enabling operation takes place as follows:
It checks the value of the enabled parameter. If it’s true, it sets the action to enable, otherwise to disable.
It compares the current enabled state with the desired state. If they differ, it marks the result as changed and executes the corresponding enable or disable command:
For the runtime enablement, check the section that verifies if a service is enabled. After executing:
the code inspects the output:
if the output is enabled-runtime, the module does not consider the service as permanently enabled and will attempt to change it if enabled: true is requested. This means the module doesn’t support runtime enablement as a permanent configuration.
This thread is just about the tests that are part of the Ansible repo. I can’t get the tests to pass.
Likely because I am not doing something right.
or because the tests are broken. which I doubt, but that is in line with:
the
--runtimefunctions are not supported by the module.
- name: Enable enabled-runtime service
is from
Once I get a good understanding of what and how Ansible works with systemd, then I can slowly try to implement what I need done. But that is out of scope for this thread. this thread is just about the running the tests that come with Ansible.
I pulled that whole role into my test repo, (symlink)
fiddled with my site.yml, the test seems to run, but fails:
TASK [systemd : Disable enabled-runtime service again] ************************************************************
task path: /home/carl/src/bug_reports/ansible/test/integration/targets/systemd/tasks/test_enabled_runtime.yml:36
<pi> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<pi> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' pi '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo ~root && sleep 0'"'"''
<pi> (0, b'/root\n', b"OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\n")
<pi> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<pi> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' pi '/bin/sh -c '"'"'( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp `"&& mkdir "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900 `" ) && sleep 0'"'"''
<pi> (0, b'ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900=/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900\n', b"OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\n")
Using module file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/modules/systemd.py
<pi> PUT /home/carl/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-2301943uui0sygw/tmpvmudzntb TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py
<pi> SSH: EXEC sftp -b - -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' '[pi]'
<pi> (0, b'sftp> put /home/carl/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-2301943uui0sygw/tmpvmudzntb /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py\n', b'OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile \'~/.ssh/known_hosts\' -> \'/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts\'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile \'~/.ssh/known_hosts2\' -> \'/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2\'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug2: Remote version: 3\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "posix-rename@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "statvfs@openssh.com" revision 2\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "fstatvfs@openssh.com" revision 2\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "hardlink@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "fsync@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "lsetstat@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "limits@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Server supports extension "expand-path@openssh.com" revision 1\r\ndebug2: Unrecognised server extension "copy-data"\r\ndebug2: Unrecognised server extension "home-directory"\r\ndebug2: Unrecognised server extension "users-groups-by-id@openssh.com"\r\ndebug3: Sent message limits@openssh.com I:1\r\ndebug3: Received limits reply T:201 I:1\r\ndebug1: Using server download size 261120\r\ndebug1: Using server upload size 261120\r\ndebug1: Server handle limit 1019; using 64\r\ndebug2: Sending SSH2_FXP_REALPATH "."\r\ndebug3: Sent message fd 3 T:16 I:2\r\ndebug3: SSH2_FXP_REALPATH . -> /root\r\ndebug3: Looking up /home/carl/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-2301943uui0sygw/tmpvmudzntb\r\ndebug2: Sending SSH2_FXP_STAT "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py"\r\ndebug3: Sent message fd 3 T:17 I:3\r\ndebug1: stat remote: No such file or directory\r\ndebug2: do_upload: upload local "/home/carl/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-2301943uui0sygw/tmpvmudzntb" to remote "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py"\r\ndebug2: Sending SSH2_FXP_OPEN "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py"\r\ndebug3: Sent dest message SSH2_FXP_OPEN I:4 P:/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py M:0x001a\r\ndebug3: Sent message SSH2_FXP_WRITE I:6 O:0 S:261120\r\ndebug3: SSH2_FXP_STATUS 0\r\ndebug3: In write loop, ack for 6 261120 bytes at 0\r\ndebug3: Sent message SSH2_FXP_WRITE I:7 O:261120 S:31485\r\ndebug3: SSH2_FXP_STATUS 0\r\ndebug3: In write loop, ack for 7 31485 bytes at 261120\r\ndebug3: Sent message SSH2_FXP_CLOSE I:5\r\ndebug3: SSH2_FXP_STATUS 0\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\n')
<pi> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<pi> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' pi '/bin/sh -c '"'"'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py && sleep 0'"'"''
<pi> (0, b'', b"OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\n")
<pi> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<pi> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' -tt pi '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python3.11 /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/AnsiballZ_systemd.py && sleep 0'"'"''
<pi> (0, b'\r\n{"name": "baz.service", "changed": true, "status": {"Type": "simple", "ExitType": "main", "Restart": "no", "NotifyAccess": "none", "RestartUSec": "100ms", "TimeoutStartUSec": "1min 30s", "TimeoutStopUSec": "1min 30s", "TimeoutAbortUSec": "1min 30s", "TimeoutStartFailureMode": "terminate", "TimeoutStopFailureMode": "terminate", "RuntimeMaxUSec": "infinity", "RuntimeRandomizedExtraUSec": "0", "WatchdogUSec": "infinity", "WatchdogTimestampMonotonic": "0", "RootDirectoryStartOnly": "no", "RemainAfterExit": "no", "GuessMainPID": "yes", "MainPID": "0", "ControlPID": "0", "FileDescriptorStoreMax": "0", "NFileDescriptorStore": "0", "StatusErrno": "0", "Result": "success", "ReloadResult": "success", "CleanResult": "success", "UID": "[not set]", "GID": "[not set]", "NRestarts": "0", "OOMPolicy": "stop", "ExecMainStartTimestampMonotonic": "0", "ExecMainExitTimestampMonotonic": "0", "ExecMainPID": "0", "ExecMainCode": "0", "ExecMainStatus": "0", "ExecStart": "{ path=/bin/yes ; argv[]=/bin/yes ; ignore_errors=no ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }", "ExecStartEx": "{ path=/bin/yes ; argv[]=/bin/yes ; flags= ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }", "Slice": "system.slice", "ControlGroupId": "0", "MemoryCurrent": "[not set]", "MemoryAvailable": "infinity", "CPUUsageNSec": "[not set]", "TasksCurrent": "[not set]", "IPIngressBytes": "[no data]", "IPIngressPackets": "[no data]", "IPEgressBytes": "[no data]", "IPEgressPackets": "[no data]", "IOReadBytes": "18446744073709551615", "IOReadOperations": "18446744073709551615", "IOWriteBytes": "18446744073709551615", "IOWriteOperations": "18446744073709551615", "Delegate": "no", "CPUAccounting": "yes", "CPUWeight": "[not set]", "StartupCPUWeight": "[not set]", "CPUShares": "[not set]", "StartupCPUShares": "[not set]", "CPUQuotaPerSecUSec": "infinity", "CPUQuotaPeriodUSec": "infinity", "IOAccounting": "no", "IOWeight": "[not set]", "StartupIOWeight": "[not set]", "BlockIOAccounting": "no", "BlockIOWeight": "[not set]", "StartupBlockIOWeight": "[not set]", "MemoryAccounting": "yes", "DefaultMemoryLow": "0", "DefaultMemoryMin": "0", "MemoryMin": "0", "MemoryLow": "0", "MemoryHigh": "infinity", "MemoryMax": "infinity", "MemorySwapMax": "infinity", "MemoryLimit": "infinity", "DevicePolicy": "auto", "TasksAccounting": "yes", "TasksMax": "455", "IPAccounting": "no", "ManagedOOMSwap": "auto", "ManagedOOMMemoryPressure": "auto", "ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit": "0", "ManagedOOMPreference": "none", "UMask": "0022", "LimitCPU": "infinity", "LimitCPUSoft": "infinity", "LimitFSIZE": "infinity", "LimitFSIZESoft": "infinity", "LimitDATA": "infinity", "LimitDATASoft": "infinity", "LimitSTACK": "infinity", "LimitSTACKSoft": "8388608", "LimitCORE": "infinity", "LimitCORESoft": "0", "LimitRSS": "infinity", "LimitRSSSoft": "infinity", "LimitNOFILE": "524288", "LimitNOFILESoft": "1024", "LimitAS": "infinity", "LimitASSoft": "infinity", "LimitNPROC": "1517", "LimitNPROCSoft": "1517", "LimitMEMLOCK": "8388608", "LimitMEMLOCKSoft": "8388608", "LimitLOCKS": "infinity", "LimitLOCKSSoft": "infinity", "LimitSIGPENDING": "1517", "LimitSIGPENDINGSoft": "1517", "LimitMSGQUEUE": "819200", "LimitMSGQUEUESoft": "819200", "LimitNICE": "0", "LimitNICESoft": "0", "LimitRTPRIO": "0", "LimitRTPRIOSoft": "0", "LimitRTTIME": "infinity", "LimitRTTIMESoft": "infinity", "OOMScoreAdjust": "0", "CoredumpFilter": "0x33", "Nice": "0", "IOSchedulingClass": "2", "IOSchedulingPriority": "4", "CPUSchedulingPolicy": "0", "CPUSchedulingPriority": "0", "CPUAffinityFromNUMA": "no", "NUMAPolicy": "n/a", "TimerSlackNSec": "50000", "CPUSchedulingResetOnFork": "no", "NonBlocking": "no", "StandardInput": "null", "StandardOutput": "journal", "StandardError": "inherit", "TTYReset": "no", "TTYVHangup": "no", "TTYVTDisallocate": "no", "SyslogPriority": "30", "SyslogLevelPrefix": "yes", "SyslogLevel": "6", "SyslogFacility": "3", "LogLevelMax": "-1", "LogRateLimitIntervalUSec": "0", "LogRateLimitBurst": "0", "SecureBits": "0", "CapabilityBoundingSet": "cap_chown cap_dac_override cap_dac_read_search cap_fowner cap_fsetid cap_kill cap_setgid cap_setuid cap_setpcap cap_linux_immutable cap_net_bind_service cap_net_broadcast cap_net_admin cap_net_raw cap_ipc_lock cap_ipc_owner cap_sys_module cap_sys_rawio cap_sys_chroot cap_sys_ptrace cap_sys_pacct cap_sys_admin cap_sys_boot cap_sys_nice cap_sys_resource cap_sys_time cap_sys_tty_config cap_mknod cap_lease cap_audit_write cap_audit_control cap_setfcap cap_mac_override cap_mac_admin cap_syslog cap_wake_alarm cap_block_suspend cap_audit_read cap_perfmon cap_bpf cap_checkpoint_restore", "DynamicUser": "no", "RemoveIPC": "no", "PrivateTmp": "no", "PrivateDevices": "no", "ProtectClock": "no", "ProtectKernelTunables": "no", "ProtectKernelModules": "no", "ProtectKernelLogs": "no", "ProtectControlGroups": "no", "PrivateNetwork": "no", "PrivateUsers": "no", "PrivateMounts": "no", "PrivateIPC": "no", "ProtectHome": "no", "ProtectSystem": "no", "SameProcessGroup": "no", "UtmpMode": "init", "IgnoreSIGPIPE": "yes", "NoNewPrivileges": "no", "SystemCallErrorNumber": "2147483646", "LockPersonality": "no", "RuntimeDirectoryPreserve": "no", "RuntimeDirectoryMode": "0755", "StateDirectoryMode": "0755", "CacheDirectoryMode": "0755", "LogsDirectoryMode": "0755", "ConfigurationDirectoryMode": "0755", "TimeoutCleanUSec": "infinity", "MemoryDenyWriteExecute": "no", "RestrictRealtime": "no", "RestrictSUIDSGID": "no", "RestrictNamespaces": "no", "MountAPIVFS": "no", "KeyringMode": "private", "ProtectProc": "default", "ProcSubset": "all", "ProtectHostname": "no", "KillMode": "control-group", "KillSignal": "15", "RestartKillSignal": "15", "FinalKillSignal": "9", "SendSIGKILL": "yes", "SendSIGHUP": "no", "WatchdogSignal": "6", "Id": "baz.service", "Names": "baz.service", "Requires": "sysinit.target system.slice", "WantedBy": "multi-user.target", "Conflicts": "shutdown.target", "Before": "shutdown.target multi-user.target", "After": "basic.target system.slice sysinit.target systemd-journald.socket", "Description": "Baz Server", "LoadState": "loaded", "ActiveState": "inactive", "FreezerState": "running", "SubState": "dead", "FragmentPath": "/etc/systemd/system/baz.service", "UnitFileState": "enabled-runtime", "UnitFilePreset": "enabled", "StateChangeTimestamp": "Sat 2025-02-22 09:43:07 GMT", "StateChangeTimestampMonotonic": "4366308686", "InactiveExitTimestampMonotonic": "0", "ActiveEnterTimestampMonotonic": "0", "ActiveExitTimestampMonotonic": "0", "InactiveEnterTimestampMonotonic": "0", "CanStart": "yes", "CanStop": "yes", "CanReload": "no", "CanIsolate": "no", "CanFreeze": "yes", "StopWhenUnneeded": "no", "RefuseManualStart": "no", "RefuseManualStop": "no", "AllowIsolate": "no", "DefaultDependencies": "yes", "OnSuccessJobMode": "fail", "OnFailureJobMode": "replace", "IgnoreOnIsolate": "no", "NeedDaemonReload": "no", "JobTimeoutUSec": "infinity", "JobRunningTimeoutUSec": "infinity", "JobTimeoutAction": "none", "ConditionResult": "no", "AssertResult": "no", "ConditionTimestampMonotonic": "0", "AssertTimestampMonotonic": "0", "Transient": "no", "Perpetual": "no", "StartLimitIntervalUSec": "10s", "StartLimitBurst": "5", "StartLimitAction": "none", "FailureAction": "none", "SuccessAction": "none", "CollectMode": "inactive"}, "enabled": false, "invocation": {"module_args": {"name": "baz.service", "enabled": false, "daemon_reload": false, "daemon_reexec": false, "scope": "system", "no_block": false, "state": null, "force": null, "masked": null}}}\r\n', b"OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\nShared connection to pi closed.\r\n")
<pi> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<pi> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o Port=10322 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o 'ControlPath="/home/carl/.ansible/cp/232c16e386"' pi '/bin/sh -c '"'"'rm -f -r /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1740270764.0062406-2302436-38070915003900/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'"'"''
<pi> (0, b'', b"OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.11, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /home/carl/.ssh/config\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/carl/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 2301978\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 0\r\n")
changed: [pi3] => {
"changed": true,
"enabled": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"daemon_reexec": false,
"daemon_reload": false,
"enabled": false,
"force": null,
"masked": null,
"name": "baz.service",
"no_block": false,
"scope": "system",
"state": null
}
},
"name": "baz.service",
"status": {
"ActiveEnterTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"ActiveExitTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"ActiveState": "inactive",
"After": "basic.target system.slice sysinit.target systemd-journald.socket",
"AllowIsolate": "no",
"AssertResult": "no",
"AssertTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"Before": "shutdown.target multi-user.target",
"BlockIOAccounting": "no",
"BlockIOWeight": "[not set]",
"CPUAccounting": "yes",
"CPUAffinityFromNUMA": "no",
"CPUQuotaPerSecUSec": "infinity",
"CPUQuotaPeriodUSec": "infinity",
"CPUSchedulingPolicy": "0",
"CPUSchedulingPriority": "0",
"CPUSchedulingResetOnFork": "no",
"CPUShares": "[not set]",
"CPUUsageNSec": "[not set]",
"CPUWeight": "[not set]",
"CacheDirectoryMode": "0755",
"CanFreeze": "yes",
"CanIsolate": "no",
"CanReload": "no",
"CanStart": "yes",
"CanStop": "yes",
"CapabilityBoundingSet": "cap_chown cap_dac_override cap_dac_read_search cap_fowner cap_fsetid cap_kill cap_setgid cap_setuid cap_setpcap cap_linux_immutable cap_net_bind_service cap_net_broadcast cap_net_admin cap_net_raw cap_ipc_lock cap_ipc_owner cap_sys_module cap_sys_rawio cap_sys_chroot cap_sys_ptrace cap_sys_pacct cap_sys_admin cap_sys_boot cap_sys_nice cap_sys_resource cap_sys_time cap_sys_tty_config cap_mknod cap_lease cap_audit_write cap_audit_control cap_setfcap cap_mac_override cap_mac_admin cap_syslog cap_wake_alarm cap_block_suspend cap_audit_read cap_perfmon cap_bpf cap_checkpoint_restore",
"CleanResult": "success",
"CollectMode": "inactive",
"ConditionResult": "no",
"ConditionTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"ConfigurationDirectoryMode": "0755",
"Conflicts": "shutdown.target",
"ControlGroupId": "0",
"ControlPID": "0",
"CoredumpFilter": "0x33",
"DefaultDependencies": "yes",
"DefaultMemoryLow": "0",
"DefaultMemoryMin": "0",
"Delegate": "no",
"Description": "Baz Server",
"DevicePolicy": "auto",
"DynamicUser": "no",
"ExecMainCode": "0",
"ExecMainExitTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"ExecMainPID": "0",
"ExecMainStartTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"ExecMainStatus": "0",
"ExecStart": "{ path=/bin/yes ; argv[]=/bin/yes ; ignore_errors=no ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }",
"ExecStartEx": "{ path=/bin/yes ; argv[]=/bin/yes ; flags= ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }",
"ExitType": "main",
"FailureAction": "none",
"FileDescriptorStoreMax": "0",
"FinalKillSignal": "9",
"FragmentPath": "/etc/systemd/system/baz.service",
"FreezerState": "running",
"GID": "[not set]",
"GuessMainPID": "yes",
"IOAccounting": "no",
"IOReadBytes": "18446744073709551615",
"IOReadOperations": "18446744073709551615",
"IOSchedulingClass": "2",
"IOSchedulingPriority": "4",
"IOWeight": "[not set]",
"IOWriteBytes": "18446744073709551615",
"IOWriteOperations": "18446744073709551615",
"IPAccounting": "no",
"IPEgressBytes": "[no data]",
"IPEgressPackets": "[no data]",
"IPIngressBytes": "[no data]",
"IPIngressPackets": "[no data]",
"Id": "baz.service",
"IgnoreOnIsolate": "no",
"IgnoreSIGPIPE": "yes",
"InactiveEnterTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"InactiveExitTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"JobRunningTimeoutUSec": "infinity",
"JobTimeoutAction": "none",
"JobTimeoutUSec": "infinity",
"KeyringMode": "private",
"KillMode": "control-group",
"KillSignal": "15",
"LimitAS": "infinity",
"LimitASSoft": "infinity",
"LimitCORE": "infinity",
"LimitCORESoft": "0",
"LimitCPU": "infinity",
"LimitCPUSoft": "infinity",
"LimitDATA": "infinity",
"LimitDATASoft": "infinity",
"LimitFSIZE": "infinity",
"LimitFSIZESoft": "infinity",
"LimitLOCKS": "infinity",
"LimitLOCKSSoft": "infinity",
"LimitMEMLOCK": "8388608",
"LimitMEMLOCKSoft": "8388608",
"LimitMSGQUEUE": "819200",
"LimitMSGQUEUESoft": "819200",
"LimitNICE": "0",
"LimitNICESoft": "0",
"LimitNOFILE": "524288",
"LimitNOFILESoft": "1024",
"LimitNPROC": "1517",
"LimitNPROCSoft": "1517",
"LimitRSS": "infinity",
"LimitRSSSoft": "infinity",
"LimitRTPRIO": "0",
"LimitRTPRIOSoft": "0",
"LimitRTTIME": "infinity",
"LimitRTTIMESoft": "infinity",
"LimitSIGPENDING": "1517",
"LimitSIGPENDINGSoft": "1517",
"LimitSTACK": "infinity",
"LimitSTACKSoft": "8388608",
"LoadState": "loaded",
"LockPersonality": "no",
"LogLevelMax": "-1",
"LogRateLimitBurst": "0",
"LogRateLimitIntervalUSec": "0",
"LogsDirectoryMode": "0755",
"MainPID": "0",
"ManagedOOMMemoryPressure": "auto",
"ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit": "0",
"ManagedOOMPreference": "none",
"ManagedOOMSwap": "auto",
"MemoryAccounting": "yes",
"MemoryAvailable": "infinity",
"MemoryCurrent": "[not set]",
"MemoryDenyWriteExecute": "no",
"MemoryHigh": "infinity",
"MemoryLimit": "infinity",
"MemoryLow": "0",
"MemoryMax": "infinity",
"MemoryMin": "0",
"MemorySwapMax": "infinity",
"MountAPIVFS": "no",
"NFileDescriptorStore": "0",
"NRestarts": "0",
"NUMAPolicy": "n/a",
"Names": "baz.service",
"NeedDaemonReload": "no",
"Nice": "0",
"NoNewPrivileges": "no",
"NonBlocking": "no",
"NotifyAccess": "none",
"OOMPolicy": "stop",
"OOMScoreAdjust": "0",
"OnFailureJobMode": "replace",
"OnSuccessJobMode": "fail",
"Perpetual": "no",
"PrivateDevices": "no",
"PrivateIPC": "no",
"PrivateMounts": "no",
"PrivateNetwork": "no",
"PrivateTmp": "no",
"PrivateUsers": "no",
"ProcSubset": "all",
"ProtectClock": "no",
"ProtectControlGroups": "no",
"ProtectHome": "no",
"ProtectHostname": "no",
"ProtectKernelLogs": "no",
"ProtectKernelModules": "no",
"ProtectKernelTunables": "no",
"ProtectProc": "default",
"ProtectSystem": "no",
"RefuseManualStart": "no",
"RefuseManualStop": "no",
"ReloadResult": "success",
"RemainAfterExit": "no",
"RemoveIPC": "no",
"Requires": "sysinit.target system.slice",
"Restart": "no",
"RestartKillSignal": "15",
"RestartUSec": "100ms",
"RestrictNamespaces": "no",
"RestrictRealtime": "no",
"RestrictSUIDSGID": "no",
"Result": "success",
"RootDirectoryStartOnly": "no",
"RuntimeDirectoryMode": "0755",
"RuntimeDirectoryPreserve": "no",
"RuntimeMaxUSec": "infinity",
"RuntimeRandomizedExtraUSec": "0",
"SameProcessGroup": "no",
"SecureBits": "0",
"SendSIGHUP": "no",
"SendSIGKILL": "yes",
"Slice": "system.slice",
"StandardError": "inherit",
"StandardInput": "null",
"StandardOutput": "journal",
"StartLimitAction": "none",
"StartLimitBurst": "5",
"StartLimitIntervalUSec": "10s",
"StartupBlockIOWeight": "[not set]",
"StartupCPUShares": "[not set]",
"StartupCPUWeight": "[not set]",
"StartupIOWeight": "[not set]",
"StateChangeTimestamp": "Sat 2025-02-22 09:43:07 GMT",
"StateChangeTimestampMonotonic": "4366308686",
"StateDirectoryMode": "0755",
"StatusErrno": "0",
"StopWhenUnneeded": "no",
"SubState": "dead",
"SuccessAction": "none",
"SyslogFacility": "3",
"SyslogLevel": "6",
"SyslogLevelPrefix": "yes",
"SyslogPriority": "30",
"SystemCallErrorNumber": "2147483646",
"TTYReset": "no",
"TTYVHangup": "no",
"TTYVTDisallocate": "no",
"TasksAccounting": "yes",
"TasksCurrent": "[not set]",
"TasksMax": "455",
"TimeoutAbortUSec": "1min 30s",
"TimeoutCleanUSec": "infinity",
"TimeoutStartFailureMode": "terminate",
"TimeoutStartUSec": "1min 30s",
"TimeoutStopFailureMode": "terminate",
"TimeoutStopUSec": "1min 30s",
"TimerSlackNSec": "50000",
"Transient": "no",
"Type": "simple",
"UID": "[not set]",
"UMask": "0022",
"UnitFilePreset": "enabled",
"UnitFileState": "enabled-runtime",
"UtmpMode": "init",
"WantedBy": "multi-user.target",
"WatchdogSignal": "6",
"WatchdogTimestampMonotonic": "0",
"WatchdogUSec": "infinity"
}
}
TASK [systemd : assert] *******************************************************************************************
task path: /home/carl/src/bug_reports/ansible/test/integration/targets/systemd/tasks/test_enabled_runtime.yml:42
fatal: [pi3]: FAILED! => {
"assertion": "baz_test_1 is changed",
"changed": false,
"evaluated_to": false,
"msg": "Assertion failed"
}
PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************
pi3 : ok=37 changed=11 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=2
pi (port 10322) is a pi with a fairly vinalla raspi os install, which is pretty close to Debian. I would be surprised if the differences are relevant to getting the ansible tests to pass.
I can bring up an x86 Debian proper box, but that takes me 10 minutes and some fidelly keyboarding to re-image. the pi is under a minute, so easy to ansible it, inspect, reset.
First of all, in order to understand what is happening, it’s necessary to know which version of Ansible you are using.
# ansible --version
The integration test I mentioned earlier is the one currently present in the devel branch and therefore refers to ansible 2.18.2.
If you are using an earlier version, the code for the systemd_service module might be different.
I was on 2.17. I couldn’t figure out how to get 1.18, but git checkout gives me 1.19 and the tests pass.
For my personal project that I am working on, I am happy to use this.
So this is progress.
Maybe this fixes all my problems! (probably not, but who knows.)
I think you’re not using the latest version of Ansible ( 2.18.2 ).
The recognition of services in enabled-runtime and the corresponding integration test were introduced with commit 3076478 on April 10, 2024 via PR #77754, which was opened in 2022.
Extend systemctl is-enabled check to handle “enabled-runtime” too. (#77754)
In general the existence of a runtime-enabled unit should not prevent a persistent enable being set.
Specifically this handles the case where there is an entry in fstab for a mount point (which is retained to allow manual mount/umount to take place) and yet a systemd mount unit needs to be deployed to handle other unit options.
There will be a generator-created unit file which shows the unit as enabled-runtime and the persistent enable of the mount unit will fail. Additionally improve the comments and modify the code to use rsplit() and the “in” notation since “systemctl is-enabled” is documented to return specific values in the cases of interest.
In fact, I ran a test with my ansible-core control node 2.18.2, and the systemd_service module correctly enables a service that is in enabled-runtime.
# ansible --version
ansible [core 2.18.2]
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.11.5 (main, Jan 27 2025, 22:17:48) [GCC 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-2)] (/usr/local/bin/python3.11)
jinja version = 3.1.5
libyaml = True
Playbook:
---
- name: dummy baz service test
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Copy dummy.service file
copy:
dest: /etc/systemd/system/baz.service
content: |
[Unit]
Description=Baz Service
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/yes
ExecReload=/bin/true
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/baz_service.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
owner: root
group: root
mode: '0644'
- name: Reload systemd
ansible.builtin.systemd_service:
daemon_reload: true
- name: Enable the enabled-runtime service using shell command
shell: systemctl enable --runtime baz.service
- name: is-enabled test pre
shell: systemctl is-enabled baz.service
register: is_enabled_pre
- name: debug is-enabled pre
debug:
var: is_enabled_pre.stdout
- name: systemctl show files pre
ansible.builtin.shell: systemctl list-unit-files | grep -w baz.service
register: props_pre
- name: debug props pre
debug:
var: props_pre.stdout_lines
- name: Enable enabled-runtime service
ansible.builtin.systemd_service:
name: baz.service
enabled: true
register: baz_test_1
- name: is-enabled test post
shell: systemctl is-enabled baz.service
register: is_enabled_post
- name: debug is-enabled post
debug:
var: is_enabled_post.stdout
- name: systemctl show files post
ansible.builtin.shell: systemctl list-unit-files | grep -w baz.service
register: props_post
- name: debug props post
debug:
var: props_post.stdout_lines
result debug:
TASK [debug is-enabled pre] ************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"is_enabled_pre.stdout": "enabled-runtime"
}
TASK [debug props pre] *****************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"props_pre.stdout_lines": [
"baz.service enabled-runtime disabled"
]
}
TASK [debug is-enabled post] ***********************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"is_enabled_post.stdout": "enabled"
}
TASK [debug props post] ****************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"props_post.stdout_lines": [
"baz.service enabled disabled"
]
}