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Reputation: 505

Error when running ansible-playbook

I've installed Ansible 1.2.3 on Ubuntu Precise 64.

Running ansible-playbook -i ansible_hosts playbook.yml give me this error: 

ERROR: problem running ansible_hosts --list ([Errno 8] Exec format error)

Here's the content of ansible_hosts:

[development]
localhost   ansible_connection=local

and playbook.yml:

---
- hosts: development
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
    - name: install curl
      apt: pkg=curl update_cache=yes

How can I make this work?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 20443

Answers (7)

Andrei Krasutski
Andrei Krasutski

Reputation: 5257

I have a similar problem:

$ ansible --version

ansible 1.5.4

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts main.yml

ERROR: problem running /mnt/d/Works/ansible-zipkin/hosts --list ([Errno 8] Exec format error)

My steps for Debian/Ubuntu: 

$ sudo apt-get purge ansible
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ansible
$ ansible --version

ansible 2.2.1.0

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts main.yml

Now it works!!!

Upvotes: 11

TlmaK0
TlmaK0

Reputation: 3886

This is fixed with ansible 2.0 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10068

Upvotes: 0

Matthias Winkelmann
Matthias Winkelmann

Reputation: 16394

I ran into this and solved it by using shell instead of command.

Upvotes: 1

amine
amine

Reputation: 522

you have to remove execution rights on ansible_hosts

chmod a-x ansible_hosts

if this doesn't work. try it with sudo

sudo chmod a-x ansible_hosts

Upvotes: 6

Jason Prawn
Jason Prawn

Reputation: 1053

Execute permissions are used for dynamic inventory scripts like for example rax.py. This one in particular builds an inventory by getting it from RackSpace. If you're maintaining your inventory manually your inventory file should not be executable.

Upvotes: 3

Chris Beach
Chris Beach

Reputation: 4392

For me, the problem was solved by removing "execute" permission on the ansible files (playbook, inventories etc):

find . -type f -exec chmod -x {} \;

Upvotes: 22

Prosunjit Biswas
Prosunjit Biswas

Reputation: 1111

I am just learning ansible. From the best of my knowledge, it seems apt module does not have a key named 'pkg'. Probably, what you are looking for is 'name' [1]

I think, changing following line

apt: pkg=curl update_cache=yes

with 

apt: name=curl update_cache=yes

should solve the problem.

Ref: http://docs.ansible.com/apt_module.html

Upvotes: -1

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