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noob

Reputation: 261

`ansible --version` command throws an ERROR

Good Day guys

I have installed ansible on my mac, it was successfully installed but then when I run the command ansible --version it throws me a n error:

Unhandled error:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 559, in update_config_data
    value, origin = self.get_config_value_and_origin(config, configfile)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 503, in get_config_value_and_origin
    value = ensure_type(value, defs[config].get('type'), origin=origin)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 124, in ensure_type
    value = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix, dir=value)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 339, in mkdtemp
    _os.mkdir(file, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/patrick/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-37505vvsQNX'


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ansible", line 62, in <module>
    import ansible.constants as C
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/constants.py", line 174, in <module>
    config = ConfigManager()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 291, in __init__
    self.update_config_data()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 571, in update_config_data
    raise AnsibleError("Invalid settings supplied for %s: %s\n" % (config, to_native(e)), orig_exc=e)
ansible.errors.AnsibleError: Invalid settings supplied for DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/patrick/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-37505vvsQNX'

Appreciate your help guys.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4601

Answers (5)

Raymond Gan
Raymond Gan

Reputation: 4870

I kept getting error

ERROR: Unhandled exception when retrieving DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-738828nkwy1p1'. [Errno 13] Permission denied: '~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-738828nkwy1p1'
ERROR: ... requires at least Ansible 4+/core 2.11 installed. Please run ./setup to upgrade Ansible

My folder ~/.ansible/tmp exists, but it lacked permissions. After doing

sudo chmod 777 ~/.ansible/tmp

Now ansible --version works!

Upvotes: 1

abymathewc
abymathewc

Reputation: 1

In the control plane, check the permissions of the ".ansible" folder. In this case, it seems to be in the folder /Users/patrick folder. Make sure the user who is executing ansible has proper permissions to that .ansible folder. If not, set the correct permissions using chown command.

Upvotes: 0

Madhavi Ala
Madhavi Ala

Reputation: 1

I have disabled 'gathering' in ansible.cfg to fix the issue.

# gathering = False

Below error occurring before commenting this.

~ % ansible
Unhandled error:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.6.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 627, in update_config_data
    value, origin = self.get_config_value_and_origin(config, configfile)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.6.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 586, in get_config_value_and_origin
    raise AnsibleOptionsError('Invalid value "%s" for configuration option "%s", valid values are: %s' %
ansible.errors.AnsibleOptionsError: Invalid value "False" for configuration option "setting: DEFAULT_GATHERING ", valid values are: implicit, explicit, smart

Upvotes: 0

Victor Rudometov
Victor Rudometov

Reputation: 1

~/.ansible/tmp is probably root, so not accessible. chown it to user

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323025

Check if this is similar to iiab/iiab/issue 1212:

After some more digging, I found the real source of this problem was hardcoded paths in ansible.cfg

Or the more recent ansible/galaxy-dev issue 107, which leads to PR 110:

The default ansible temp dir ~/.ansible/tmp is accessed by ansible-doc via the galaxy-importer.
This works OK in the galaxy-dev local env, but on the CI environment it attempts to create dir /.ansible/tmp and fails.

This PR changes the default ansible temp dir to /tmp/ansible which is outside the user home (and in the local env, /tmp has greater permissions)

Try and change DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP to /tmp.

Upvotes: 4

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