# Traceback with **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071 "2012-11-08T16:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nolan\_Darilek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nolan\_Darilek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nolan_Darilek)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/1 "2012-11-08T16:02:20Z")
Getting this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):    File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 165, in \      sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))    File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 73, in main      options.ask\_pass = options.ask\_pass or C.DEFAULT\_ASK\_PASS AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DEFAULT\_ASK\_PASS' with this config: [defaults] hostfile = ~/.ansible.hosts ask\_sudo\_pass=True with latest master. Any idea what's up? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/2 "2012-11-08T16:03:50Z")
There's no branch 'master', which may be part of the problem šŸ™‚ ansible --version? ---
**Author:** ![Nolan\_Darilek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nolan\_Darilek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nolan_Darilek)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/3 "2012-11-08T16:17:45Z")
> There's no branch 'master', which may be part of the problem šŸ™‚ > > ansible --version? > 0.9. Sorry, latest on the devel branch. ---
**Author:** ![Nolan\_Darilek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nolan\_Darilek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nolan_Darilek)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/4 "2012-11-12T18:22:49Z")
Any word on this? Has anyone managed to duplicate it? What additional information might I provide? It's still happening for me in the latest devel checkout, after running 'make deb' and installing the package. I've looked, and I'm uncertain as to why DEFAULT\_ASK\_PASS is being pulled off of 'module' when even the crashing line in question references C. This is under Ubuntu 12.10 and Python 2.7. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/5 "2012-11-12T19:36:58Z")
I tried to reproduce this, but was unable. C is a config construct holding all the constants DEFAULT\_ASK\_PASS is a constant that is present so Iā€™m not sure why it is producing this traceback. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/6 "2012-11-12T19:38:44Z")
C is also a module instance. I suspect you have some weird installation with some leftover artifacts around or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Nolan\_Darilek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nolan\_Darilek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nolan_Darilek)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/7 "2012-11-12T19:49:57Z")
I just dpkg --purged my ansible package, did a fresh checkout, built then re-installed the package. Same result. Thoughts on what else to try? ---
**Author:** ![Nolan\_Darilek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nolan\_Darilek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nolan_Darilek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/traceback-with/12071/8 "2012-11-14T15:41:39Z")
OK, figured this out. There was indeed an install of Ansible hiding in my ~/.local directory, which I don't even remember having made. It's been about a decade since I did anything with Python so it took me a while to track this down. One of my debugging steps involved running Ansible from source, but it failed there too. From that I concluded that there must be some bug in the version as shipped. I wonder if the binaries in the source tree might be configured to put the source directories first on PYTHONPATH? Had it worked from source but failed from my packaged versions, I would have poked my system more aggressively and wouldn't have bothered the list. šŸ™‚ Thanks, and sorry for the noise.