Yum Module - EL6 Systems Permission denied

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HI all!

I try to install some packages via the Ansible yum Module on CentOS 6 (python --version
Python 2.6.6) systems but I getting the following error:

I’ve started the Module-Script with root - permission
/dev/shm/ansible-tmp-root/ansible-tmp-1491206776.36-130095664290190/yum.py

error message

{“msg”: “[Errno 13] Permission denied”, “failed”: true, “cmd”: “/etc/rpm -q --qf ‘%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}’ libselinux-python”, “rc”: 13, “invocation”: {“module_args”: {“name”: [“libselinux-python”, “ntp”], “list”: null, “disable_gpg_check”: false, “conf_file”: null, “install_repoquery”: true, “state”: “installed”, “disablerepo”: null, “update_cache”: false, “enablerepo”: null, “exclude”: null, “validate_certs”: true}}}

On my CentOS7 systems works the same very well.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance

Martin

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I'm guessing the system doesnt have 'repoquery' installed, and that is
potentially causing the plugin to lookup where rpm lives and for
whatever reason it is deciding rpm executable lives in /etc/rpm.

ie the result of
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/yum.py#L351
is setting rpmbin='/etc/rpm'

No idea why it would find /etc/rpm though.

is '/etc' in PATH?

I do see what is almost surely a bug in
module_utils.basic.get_bin_path() though. It sets a default default
arg to a mutable , which can cause unexpected behavior. But I dont
see any thing in particular that seems like it would cause the bug.