failing to send the list of extensions

[fabricesemti80]

Hi @PeterMosmans

Thanks for this role.

My slight problem (I ran this as part of an ansible-pull): even though I use become: true and become_method: sudo, I get this error:

task path: /root/.ansible/roles/petermosmans.customize-gnome/tasks/main.yml:68
<dev-0> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<dev-0> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~root && sleep 0'
<dev-0> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /var/tmp `"&& mkdir "` echo /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063="` echo /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/modules/command.py
<dev-0> PUT /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-116227d9c21g3p/tmp2ro0r5an TO /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063/AnsiballZ_command.py
<dev-0> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'setfacl -m u:fabrice:r-x /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063/ /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063/AnsiballZ_command.py && sleep 0'
<dev-0> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S -n  -u fabrice /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-orkakyldcxgvzzjzbkmhohopqlhhlhmt ; /usr/bin/python3 /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063/AnsiballZ_command.py'"'"' && sleep 0'
<dev-0> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1691880676.9788015-120939-9984557289063/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
fatal: [dev-0]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": true,
    "cmd": "gnome-extensions list --enabled > /tmp/before.txt",
    "delta": "0:00:00.158174",
    "end": "2023-08-12 23:51:17.313354",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_raw_params": "gnome-extensions list --enabled > /tmp/before.txt",
            "_uses_shell": true,
            "argv": null,
            "chdir": null,
            "creates": null,
            "executable": null,
            "removes": null,
            "stdin": null,
            "stdin_add_newline": true,
            "strip_empty_ends": true,
            "warn": false
        }
    },
    "msg": "non-zero return code",
    "rc": 2,
    "start": "2023-08-12 23:51:17.155180",
    "stderr": "",
    "stderr_lines": [],
    "stdout": "",
    "stdout_lines": []
}

Any suggestions?
I tried a few things, such as:

• executing the command direstly:

23:53:06 [0] [dev-0:~]
$ gnome-extensions list --enabled > /tmp/before.txt
23:53:09 [0] [dev-0:~]
$ cat /tmp/before.txt
ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com
ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com
desktop-icons@csoriano

• I tried also cloning the role locally and creating the files before / ensuring they are absent

Non of these seems to work...any suggestion please?

Thanks

[rainyskye]

Bumping this issue @PeterMosmans.

@fabricesemti80 - Did you end up finding a solution? I've had a go at a couple of different things but it seems to be another issue somewhere.

[lordtaytertot]

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I was able to get this working here.

It allows me to get a list of extensions even when no one is logged in to one of the hosts.

[PeterMosmans]

Hey @lordtaytertot - thanks for that change. Would you mind creating a PR, so others can be helped here as well?
Apologies if I've missed earlier remarks about that.