unsupported connection type: ssh

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I hadn’t used Ansible on my laptop for a while, and now when returning to projects that I was working on before, I’m stuck on a fatal:

fatal: [test-centos01] => unsupported connection type: ssh

I’m encountering this from a project with a VagrantFile that used to boot and provision just fine. I can’t seem to find anything describing why that may fail and how I could possibly correct it. I’m using:

  • MacOS 10.10.1
  • ansible 1.7.1
  • vagrant 1.6.5
  • virtual box 4.3.18

Thanks,
Trevor

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What command are you invoking?

I'm assuming something simple like

ansible test-centos01 -m ping

is failing with that message?

What happens if you try other connection types like:

ansible test-centos01 -c paramiko -m ping

and

ansible localhost -c local -m ping

-Toshio

3

Yeah. Here’s the result of all those:

trevor:~ $ ansible apps01 -m ping -i inventory.conf
apps01 | FAILED => unsupported connection type: ssh
trevor:~ $ ansible apps01 -c paramiko -m ping -i inventory.conf
apps01 | FAILED => unsupported connection type: paramiko
trevor:~ $ ansible localhost -c local -m ping -i inventory.conf
localhost | FAILED => unsupported connection type: local
trevor:~ $ more inventory.conf
[apps]
apps01

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling ansible as well.

trevor:~ $ brew install ansible
==> Downloading http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-1.7.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible-1.7.1.tar.gz
==> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pycrypto/pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible–pycrypto-2.6.tar.gz
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1/libexec
==> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PyYAML/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible–pyyaml-3.10.tar.gz
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1/libexec
==> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paramiko/paramiko-1.11.0.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible–paramiko-1.11.0.tar.gz
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1/libexec
==> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MarkupSafe/MarkupSafe-0.18.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible–markupsafe-0.18.tar.gz
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1/libexec
==> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/J/Jinja2/Jinja2-2.7.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ansible–jinja2-2.7.1.tar.gz
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1/libexec
==> python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1
:beer: /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/1.7.1: 495 files, 6.1M, built in 10 seconds

trevor:~ $ ansible localhost -c local -m ping -i inventory.conf
localhost | FAILED => unsupported connection type: local

I’m not sure if this could be a Yosemite issue.

4

looks more like a broken install, it could not find any connection plugin.