What happend? Boto not found? sys is not defined?

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I’ve been running these playbooks with ansible 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 for weeks now on this same workstations. Now all of the sudden I get the below error.

I have no idea what could have triggered this. Anybody seen this before?

`
failed: [localhost] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}

failed=True msg=‘boto required for this module’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/bkaplan/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1433560234.51-65949177742337/ec2_group”, line 114, in
sys.exit(1)
NameError: name ‘sys’ is not defined
`

2

So this is only on OSX. On linux the same project runs fine.

3

I found this issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/994. And tried:

export PYTHONPATH=“/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages”

This fixed the problem on osx. But I still can’t fathom what happened to cause this to be required.

4

did you install ansible via homebrew?

5

Hmm, I really don’t remember. I could have been via pip. But I’m guessing that I did whatever the install the instructions said because when I first installed ansible (and started using ansible) was just 4 or 5 weeks ago.

(And I must say, that in 4 or 5 weekends, I have completely rebuilt 2 years of chef work. Not only rebuilt, but everything is way way way way cleaner. No more chefdk, berks, uploads, chef server errors, complex resources-defs and impls, constant gem conflicts – I could rant for hours. And on top of that I now create all the resources that our systems run on: aws security groups, elb, ebs, route53, etc. So I can blow away and recreate entire sub-stacks at will. My life is has been improved tremendously by ansible.)