Empty ERROR: log at startup.

[dan-perron]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

inventory

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.5.2
  config file = /root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Dec  4 2017, 14:50:18) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

CONFIGURATION

DEFAULT_LOG_PATH(/root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg) = /var/log/ansible.log
DEFAULT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE(/root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg) = /root/.ssh/Ans
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(/root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg) = ubuntu
DEFAULT_TRANSPORT(/root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg) = ssh

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ubuntu 14.

SUMMARY

On startup there's an ERROR: log with no content.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

This happens when I run any ansible command.

ansible tag_OS_Windows -i ec2.py --vault-password-file ~/triggr-vault-password.txt -m win_ping -vvvv

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

Everything works but I get a scary error line.

ansible 2.5.2
  config file = /root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Dec  4 2017, 14:50:18) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
Using /root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
 [ERROR]:

Parsed /root/triggr_misc/Ansible/ec2.py inventory source with script plugin
Loading callback plugin minimal of type stdout, v2.0 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/minimal.pyc
META: ran handlers
Trying secret FileVaultSecret(filename='/root/triggr-vault-password.txt') for vault_id=default
Trying secret FileVaultSecret(filename='/root/triggr-vault-password.txt') for vault_id=default
Trying secret FileVaultSecret(filename='/root/triggr-vault-password.txt') for vault_id=default
Using module file /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_ping.ps1
<sisense01-prd.triggr.co> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: administrator on PORT 5986 TO sisense01-prd.triggr.co
checking if winrm_host sisense01-prd.triggr.co is an IPv6 address
EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
sisense01-prd.triggr.co | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "ping": "pong"
}
META: ran handlers
META: ran handlers

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[jborean93]

duplicate of #39007, fixed in #39019