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Prasanna Kumar
Prasanna Kumar

Reputation: 61

Unable to ping server using ansible

I'm unable to ping the another server. And i have SSH communication also authenticated. Please find the below error

ansible all -m ping -u ubuntu -i inventory

WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host 10.0.3.128: No JSON object could be decoded

[WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host 10.0.3.53: No JSON object could be decoded

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named zipfile
[WARNING]: Platform linux on host 10.0.3.128 is using the discovered Python interpreter at /usr/bin/python, but future installation of another Python interpreter could change this. See
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.

10.0.3.128 | FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "module_stderr": "Shared connection to 10.0.3.128 closed.\r\n",
    "module_stdout": "Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1574742993.99-111761674559704/AnsiballZ_ping.py\", line 102, in <module>\r\n    _ansiballz_main()\r\n  File \"/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1574742993.99-111761674559704/AnsiballZ_ping.py\", line 21, in _ansiballz_main\r\n    import zipfile\r\nImportError: No module named zipfile\r\n",
    "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
    "rc": 1
}
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named zipfile
[WARNING]: Platform linux on host 10.0.3.53 is using the discovered Python interpreter at /usr/bin/python, but future installation of another Python interpreter could change this. See
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.

10.0.3.53 | FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "module_stderr": "Shared connection to 10.0.3.53 closed.\r\n",
    "module_stdout": "Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1574742994.0-31022973006547/AnsiballZ_ping.py\", line 102, in <module>\r\n    _ansiballz_main()\r\n  File \"/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1574742994.0-31022973006547/AnsiballZ_ping.py\", line 21, in _ansiballz_main\r\n    import zipfile\r\nImportError: No module named zipfile\r\n",
    "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
    "rc": 1
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7900

Answers (3)

shraddheya shrivastava
shraddheya shrivastava

Reputation: 187

Seems like ansible is not able to find python distribution in the client. The simplest solution is to tell ansible where to find it in ansible.cfg. Just add:

[defaults]
...
interpreter_python  = <pyhton path in client>

the python path in the client can be found by running:

which python

or for newer versions (recommended for ansible):

which python3

like so:

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in most modern Debian based distributions, python is located at /usr/bin/python3 that makes the final solution:

[defaults]
...
interpreter_python  = /usr/bin/python3

Upvotes: 0

Amit Jathar
Amit Jathar

Reputation: 329

I have got the similar error and resolved it.

After creating the container I used the following command to install python on it:

apt-get install python-minimal --no-install-recommends

But, when i got the "ImportError: No module named zipfile" error with ansible ping command, I just got into the container (with lxc-attach) and used:

apt-get install python

And then my ansible ping command worked as expected.

Upvotes: 0

oppressionslayer
oppressionslayer

Reputation: 7214

Prasanna, go to 10.0.3.128 run python, and try to :

import zipfile

It seems like either it wasn't compiled with it or it can't find the library so maybe an environment issue. try it as the ansible user

Upvotes: 1

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