# winrm send\_input failed. help needed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [July 3, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703 "2019-07-03T09:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chris\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Chris\_Jackson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/1 "2019-07-03T09:24:10Z")
Hello, My playbook is failing with a long error: winrm send\_input failed; \nstdout: Unable to initialize device PRN\r\nUnable to initialize device PRN\r\nUnable to initialize device PRN\r\nUnable to initialize device PRN\r\nUnable to initialize device PRN\r\n\nstderr \_ANSIBALLZ\_WRAPPER : The term ‘\_ANSIBALLZ\_WRAPPER’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, \r\nor operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and \r\ntry again.\r\nAt line:1 char:1\r\n+ \_ANSIBALLZ\_WRAPPER = True # For test-module script to tell this is a …\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (_ANSIBALLZ\_WRAPPER:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\nAt line:1 char:21\r\n+ def ansiballz\_main():\r\n+ ~\r\nAn expression was expected after ‘(’.\r\n + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (🙂 [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExpectedExpression\r\n \r\nimport : The term ‘import’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. \r\nCheck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ import os\r\n+~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (import:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\nimport : The term ‘import’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. \r\nCheck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ import os.path\r\n+ ~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (import:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\nimport : The term ‘import’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. \r\nCheck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ import sys\r\n+~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (import:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\nimport : The term ‘import’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. \r\nCheck the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ import **main** \r\n+ ~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (import:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\nscriptdir : The term ‘scriptdir’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable \r\nprogram. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ scriptdir = None\r\n+~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (scriptdir:String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\ntry: : The term ‘try:’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check \r\nthe spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.\r\nAt line:1 char:5\r\n+ try:\r\n+ ~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (try::String) [], CommandNotFoundException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException\r\n \r\n\_\_main_. **file** : The term ‘ **main**. **file** ’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or \r\noperable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try \r\nagain.\r\nAt line:1 char:54\r\n+ … scriptdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath( **main**. **file** ))\r\n+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: ( **main**. **file** :String) I understand from a previous post that this may have something to do with Ansible expecting a python script but getting a powershell script instead. I am executing a role which is as follows:- - name: Ensure that the temporary unpacking area is there file: path: “{{ package\_install\_home }}” state: directory recurse: yes - name: Get the package from the artifactory and install it include\_tasks: Windows\_Get\_And\_Install\_MSI.yml with\_items: “{{ lookup(‘dict’, artifacts) }}” - name: Copy the powershell script to the remote system win\_copy: src: files/ModifyPath.ps1 dest: “{{ package\_install\_home }}” - name: Modify the system path so that perl.exe is visible win\_command: “powershell.exe {{ package\_install\_home }}\ModifyPath.ps1” Can anyone help? Kind Regards Chris. ---
**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/2 "2019-07-03T11:02:40Z")
You can’t use Python modules on a Windows host, use win\_file and not file. Thanks Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Chris\_Jackson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/3 "2019-07-03T12:58:48Z")
Thanks Jordan, The playbook has now moved on and now i am getting the following error:- ‘ansible.utils.unsafe\_proxy.AnsibleUnsafeText object’ has no attribute ‘name’ this is being generated from an include\_tasks on the following YAML: name: Get the package from the artifactory win\_uri: url: “{{ artifactory\_path }}/{{ this\_artifact.name }}/{{ this\_artifact.version }}/{{ this\_artifact.package }}” method: GET headers: X-JFrog-Art-Api: “{{ artifactory\_api\_key }}” dest: “{{ package\_install\_home }}” - name: Install the .msi package win\_package: path: “{{ package\_install\_home }}\{{ this\_artifact.package }}” arguments: “/i /qb TARGETDIR=d:\perl INSTALLDIR=d:\strawberry\perl” state: present Any ideas? Chris ---
**Author:** ![Tchia04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@Tchia04](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tchia04)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/4 "2019-07-03T18:24:11Z")
Can you use the debug module and print out [the variable this\_artifact.name ?](http://this_artifact.name) It appears you have registered this\_artifact in previous tasks but I suspect it doesn’t have name attribute after this\_artifact. You might have to use this\_artifact.stdout.name or something like that. Tony ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Chris\_Jackson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/5 "2019-07-04T09:18:43Z")
Thanks Tony, Yes, you were right - I needed {{ this\_artifact.value.name }} Chris. ---
**Author:** ![Tchia04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@Tchia04](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tchia04)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-send-input-failed-help-needed/30703/6 "2019-07-04T18:17:08Z")
Btw you can use ARA to display the output of each registered variables without using the debug module Another side benefits is that it keeps your execution logs so you can refers to it later [https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/](https://ara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)