unarchive complaining about nonexistent file

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ansible 1.9.0.1

  • name: Untar DoD certificate installer
    unarchive: src=dod_java_certs.tgz dest=/tmp/ copy=yes

Results in:

TASK: [Untar DoD certificate installer] ***************************************
failed: [quad] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}

BECOME-SUCCESS-jswerfsbfqzovzexvqbjpbabyvwuzibk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/joliver.sa/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1430937098.81-30204202442133/unarchive”, line 1890, in
main()
File “/Users/joliver.sa/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1430937098.81-30204202442133/unarchive”, line 289, in main
res_args[‘changed’] = module.set_fs_attributes_if_different(file_args, res_args[‘changed’])
File “/Users/joliver.sa/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1430937098.81-30204202442133/unarchive”, line 1090, in set_fs_attributes_if_different
file_args[‘path’], file_args[‘mode’], changed
File “/Users/joliver.sa/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1430937098.81-30204202442133/unarchive”, line 928, in set_mode_if_different
path_stat = os.lstat(path)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/tmp/dod_java_certs/certs/._DODCA_25.cer’
Shared connection to quad closed.

I’ve filed a bug report for the traceback. ansible is correct… there is no such file as ‘certs/._DODCA_25.cer’ in my tarball. There also isn’t a file called thisfiledoesnotexist, but I don’t get an error about that! :stuck_out_tongue: I’m not sure if this is a bug or something on my end.

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It tries to set permission mode to extracted files, does not find this one (/tmp/dod_java_certs/certs/._
DODCA_25.cer) and breaks, which means it expects it based on tar archive file list I guess.

I would suspect an incorrect / incomplete / broken tar archive.
How about re-creating the archive and trying again with that?

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That’s the problem… there is no such file in the tarball. I can extract it manually just fine. So why does ansible believe that this file exists? It has to be getting that idea from somewhere, and I have to assume something broken in the ‘unarchive’ module, as it isn’t like tar is a new, unknown program full of bugs :stuck_out_tongue:

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Ansible performs the following command to find out what files the archive contains:

tar -tzf /path/to/archive.tgz

Based on that output, it attempts to set permissions for all files listed.

Your archive apparently lists a file that is not actually in the archive. This does’t affect unpacking, but by using that list, it affects the ability to set permissions on those files.

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Ahh, thank you! Apple strikes again… these aren’t files, they’re resource forks. For posterity, export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true before creating the tarball ought to fix this.