'ansible_distribution' is undefined

[ssbarnea]

It seems that this role fails by complaining that the ansible_distribution is undefined, which obviously makes no sense.

TASK [ansiblebit.launchpad-ppa-webupd8 : if debian, include family specific task file] ***
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Instead of sudo/sudo_user, use become/become_user and make sure become_method is 'sudo' (default). This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by
 setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
included: /Users/sorins/bmll/devops/roles.galaxy/ansiblebit.launchpad-ppa-webupd8/tasks/os_distribution/debian.yml for tower

TASK [ansiblebit.launchpad-ppa-webupd8 : debian is supported] ******************
fatal: [tower]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check '(ansible_distribution | lower == 'debian') or (ansible_distribution | lower == 'ubuntu')' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional ((ansible_distribution | lower == 'debian') or (ansible_distribution | lower == 'ubuntu')): 'ansible_distribution' is undefined"}
    to retry, use: --limit @cfg-tower.retry

This is not the first time when I encounter this, ansible 2.0.1.0

I am already using similar conditions other places and they work so it must be something else that is messing ansible.

[steenzout]

@ssbarnea ansible 2.0 isn't supported yet.

I've added a milestone to handle this issue.

[steenzout]

@ssbarnea out of curiosity did you set gather_facts: true?

[steenzout]

no response.
please re-open if this is still an issue for you.

thank you!