# Update to ansible 2.0.0.1, broken, cannot run ansible-playbook anymore

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-to-ansible-2-0-0-1-broken-cannot-run-ansible-playbook-anymore/20715>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-to-ansible-2-0-0-1-broken-cannot-run-ansible-playbook-anymore/20715 "2016-03-01T03:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![hce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@hce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hce)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-to-ansible-2-0-0-1-broken-cannot-run-ansible-playbook-anymore/20715/1 "2016-03-01T03:20:31Z")

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Hi,

I was running ansible 1.9 fine until updating to ansible-2.0.0.1.tar.gz, now I got following error:

ERROR! A malformed block was encountered.

The error appears to have been in ‘/tmp/debug.yml’: line 1, column 3, but may  
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- hosts: ‘\*’  
^ here

$ cat /tmp/debug.yml

- hosts: ‘\*’  
tasks:  
setup

What could I am missing here?

Thank you.

- j

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-to-ansible-2-0-0-1-broken-cannot-run-ansible-playbook-anymore/20715/2 "2016-03-01T03:46:14Z")

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this is invalid, it did not ‘work’ in 1.9, it just got ignored:

tasks:  
setup

must be written:

tasks:

- setup:

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**Author:** ![hce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@hce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hce)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-to-ansible-2-0-0-1-broken-cannot-run-ansible-playbook-anymore/20715/3 "2016-03-01T06:16:20Z")

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Thanks Brian, all good.

Kind regards,

- j