# Traceback with ansible: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '\_vendor' **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [September 22, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328 "2015-09-22T14:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tma0286](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tma0286](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tma0286)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/1 "2015-09-22T14:50:06Z")
Hi all. I hope you can help me investigating the problem why my ansible installation does not want to run. I get the following traceback in latest stable “release” as well as git checkout: seadmin@aconf1a:/sw/ansible\_gitclone/ansible/bin\> ./ansible Traceback (most recent call last): File “./ansible”, line 40, in from ansible.utils.display import Display File “/sw/ansible/lib/ansible/utils/display.py”, line 35, in from ansible import constants as C File “/sw/ansible/lib/ansible/constants.py”, line 30, in from ansible.parsing.splitter import unquote File “/sw/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/ **init**.py”, line 32, in from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib File “/sw/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/ **init**.py”, line 53, in from Crypto.Hash import SHA256, HMAC File “build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/Crypto/Hash/HMAC.py”, line 66, in File “build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/Crypto/Util/strxor.py”, line 7, in File “build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/Crypto/Util/strxor.py”, line 3, in **bootstrap** File “build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 90, in AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘\_vendor’ My older 2.0.0 ansible installation is running properly. ---
**Author:** ![tma0286](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tma0286](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tma0286)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/2 "2015-09-23T15:50:01Z")
This is fixed as hacking/env-setup or python setup.py egg\_info was executed. ---
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Anthony\_Green](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anthony_Green)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/3 "2015-11-06T10:24:36Z")
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘\_vendor’ I’m getting this error with v2.0.0-0.3.beta1 on OS X ---
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Anthony\_Green](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anthony_Green)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/4 "2015-11-06T10:43:47Z")
In my case the fix was to uninstall the cryptography pip I previously installed ---
**Author:** ![Srdjan\_Grubor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Srdjan\_Grubor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srdjan_Grubor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/5 "2016-01-15T20:05:11Z")
I fixed this issue on my Ubuntu 15.10 machine by installing python-paramiko, python-selinux, and python-crypto Try installing all dependencies from regular ansible package (apt-cache show ansible) - you might have some missing. ---
**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/6 "2016-01-15T21:07:44Z")
If you're encountering this with the PPAs, the 2.0.0.1 python-setuptools was missing as a dependency in the debs that we built for the PPA. That can cause this error as well. The 2.0.0.2 PPA build should have fixed that problem. -Toshio ---
**Author:** ![Pablo\_Daniel\_Estigar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Pablo\_Daniel\_Estigar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pablo_Daniel_Estigar)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/7 "2016-01-21T00:21:58Z")
Hello, I had similar error: ansible Unexpected Exception: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘\_init\_cffi\_1\_0\_external\_module’ the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 74, in from ansible.cli.adhoc import AdHocCLI as mycli File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py”, line 28, in from ansible.executor.task\_queue\_manager import TaskQueueManager File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/task\_queue\_manager.py”, line 29, in from ansible.executor.play\_iterator import PlayIterator File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/play\_iterator.py”, line 29, in from ansible.playbook.block import Block File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/ **init**.py”, line 25, in from ansible.playbook.play import Play File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py”, line 27, in from ansible.playbook.base import Base File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/base.py”, line 35, in from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py”, line 33, in from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib File “/home/pablo/setup/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/ **init**.py”, line 68, in from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.pbkdf2 import PBKDF2HMAC File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/kdf/pbkdf2.py”, line 12, in from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import constant\_time File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/constant\_time.py”, line 9, in from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.\_constant\_time import lib AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘\_init\_cffi\_1\_0\_external\_module’ with all dependencies for ansible installed. It was solved after removing: sudo dnf remove python-cryptography it solved the issue immediatelly. looks like there are some conflicts with python-crypt and python-cryptography. ---
**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/8 "2016-01-21T16:08:50Z")
Unfortunately, with setuptools in the mix it's just as likely that the two python modules are compatible but when they're installed together a setuptools bug triggers and causes things like this. setuptools changes where python is searching for modules based on data installed globally (all of the egginfo files of packages) so I can kind of see how that can happen even though I can't see how this particular bug works ☹ On Ubuntu we found that even though the bug was experienced by people with both PyCrypto and Cryptography installed the bug was really that the setuptools egginfo wasn't installed. -Toshio ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_McCormick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@Dan\_McCormick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan_McCormick)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with-ansible-attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-vendor/19328/9 "2016-02-13T22:33:12Z")
In case this helps someone who finds this thread while Googling, I was able to solve this on Mac OS X by installing the cryptography package system-wide, i.e. “sudo pip install cryptography”. Dan