Trying to switch to Accelerate and hitting two issues

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Hi,

I’m trying to switch from fireball to accelerate and getting a few issues.

The first issue I’m getting is that it doesn’t appear to support the formatting of my hosts file that i’ve been using for months:

[api]

live-api2.xx ansible_ssh_host=11.22.33.44 private_ip=22.33.44.55 private_hostname=live-api2.internal.xx cron_state=absent

This generates the following error: fatal: [live-api2.xx] => host not found: 11.22.33.44

I’m able to work around the issue by replacing the line with:

live-api2.xx private_ip=22.33.44.55 private_hostname=live-api2.internal.xx cron_state=absent

and ensuring the first part fully resolves (Before this was not an issue)

The second problem is that the playbook then fails on: live-api2.xx (reason: keyczar is not installed). This leads me to believe that the variable: ansible_python_interpreter: /root/.virtualenvs/ansible/bin/python defined in the vars: section of the playbook is not working as I expect. I can work around the issue probably by just installing python-keyczar in the base python rather than a virtualenv

Cheers,

Tom

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Could you open up a github issue for the first problem? That one is especially odd, since the python documentation clearly states that when an IP address is used it should not result in a DNS lookup.

For the second, you should be able to verify the daemon’s interpreter by looking at the output of “ps aux | grep python”, as the daemon should be started with the same interpreter.

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Benno (@bennojoy) tracked down the first issue and I just merged in his fix for this, if you’d like to give it a try.

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Hi Tom,

Can you confirm whether you fixed that by installing keyczar there on the local or remote end?

I’d expect exactly that for the local end.

Thanks!

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Hello,

I’ve problems with accelerate mode too. I’m unable to use in any of my servers. I have installed kyczar in both (local and remote) and always ansible returns the same error:

PLAY [ansibletest] ************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
fatal: [ansibletest] => python-keyczar must be installed to use fireball/accelerated mode

Regards!

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Are you also installing in a virtualenv?

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No, the python-* packages are installed globally in the system via apt-get. Ansible uses openssh to connect to servers.

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“Ansible uses openssh to connect to servers.”

And also accelerate mode, in your case above.

Please make sure it’s available on your local host too.

You might be using ansible_python_interpreter and it’s not available in that Python. Perhaps not.

In either case, maybe hop on IRC and we can help figure it out.