# tarballs failing **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 1, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tarballs-failing/20727 "2016-03-01T16:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Niche\_Meister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Niche\_Meister](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Niche_Meister)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tarballs-failing/20727/1 "2016-03-01T16:44:06Z")
In the middle of multiple tarball installations, ansible started throwing the below error… help! ` TASK: [install-tarball | download the file if the tag is missing or doesn’t match] \*\*\* \<10.226.21.111\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ec2-user on PORT 22 TO 10.226.21.111 \<10.226.21.111\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319’ \<10.226.21.111\> PUT /tmp/tmpsaE1Fv TO /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/get\_url \<10.226.21.111\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘chmod a+rx /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/get\_url’ \<10.226.21.111\> PUT /tmp/tmps4DsHO TO /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/async\_wrapper \<10.226.21.111\> PUT /tmp/tmpsjl0kO TO /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/arguments \<10.226.21.111\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=tefdrjxhzpcminatlvkvtkalebynmqzn] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-tefdrjxhzpcminatlvkvtkalebynmqzn; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/async\_wrapper 696194426746 7200 /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/get\_url /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/arguments; rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”‘"’’ \<10.226.21.111\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ec2-user on PORT 22 TO 10.226.21.111 \<10.226.21.111\> REMOTE\_MODULE async\_status jid=696194426746.2081 \<10.226.21.111\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351’ \<10.226.21.111\> PUT /tmp/tmpA80f9U TO /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351/async\_status \<10.226.21.111\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=srgiwmeuaeemgyiynzgdpauffcedoucl] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-srgiwmeuaeemgyiynzgdpauffcedoucl; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351/async\_status; rm -rf /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849585.28-225199428910351/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”‘"’’ failed: [10.226.21.111] =\> {“ansible\_job\_id”: “696194426746.2081”, “changed”: false, “cmd”: “/home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/get\_url /home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/arguments”, “data”: “”, “failed”: 1, “finished”: 1} msg: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/ec2-user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1456849573.39-231370096109319/async\_wrapper”, line 112, in \_run\_command result = json.loads(outdata) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/ **init**.py”, line 338, in loads return \_default\_decoder.decode(s) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 366, in decode obj, end = self.raw\_decode(s, idx=\_w(s, 0).end()) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 384, in raw\_decode raise ValueError(“No JSON object could be decoded”) ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded \ FAILED on 10.226.21.111 FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting ` ---
**Author:** ![jdelaporte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jdelaporte/32/366_2.png) [@jdelaporte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jdelaporte)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tarballs-failing/20727/2 "2016-03-01T21:37:34Z")
What does the play look like that is running this task?