unable to detect ubuntu flavour ?

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when gathering facts from a server, ubuntu release version comes back as NA.
Has anyone experienced this ?


No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

but ansible reports ubuntu release as NA


ansible all -l server -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_distribution_release'
server | SUCCESS => {
"ansible_facts": {
"ansible_distribution_release": "NA"
},
"changed": false
}

Ansible version:


ansible 2.1.1.0
config file = /Users/mchristof/di/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

python version on the server

Python 2.7.11
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when gathering facts from a server, ubuntu release version comes back as NA.
Has anyone experienced this ?

from my server

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

but ansible reports ubuntu release as NA

Ansible is using the Python module platform to get this information, and platform is reading /etc/lsb-release first.
Do you have that file?

ansible all -l server -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_distribution_release'
server | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "ansible_distribution_release": "NA"
    },
    "changed": false
}

Ansible version:

ansible 2.1.1.0
  config file = /Users/mchristof/di/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

python version on the server

Python 2.7.11

You can also check if the command Ansible is running is working on the node.
python -c "import platform; print platform.dist()"

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python -c “import platform; print platform.dist()”

(‘debian’, ‘jessie/sid’, ‘’)

cat /etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS”

This doesnt look good, but at least i have something to search for now.

Cheers