On unprivileged setup, ansible_user_uid undefined

[pcm32]

When running on an unprivileged setup, same user ssh-in and installing galaxy, I get the following error:

TASK [galaxyproject.galaxy : Set Galaxy user facts] ***************************************************************
fatal: [galaxy-gxa-002]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The field 'become' has an invalid value, which includes an undefined variable. The error was: 'ansible_user_uid' is undefined"}

This doesn't happen for some reason when the user ssh-ing and the galaxy_user (still all unprivileged) are different. Any ideas?

Problem seems to be here: https://github.com/galaxyproject/ansible-galaxy/blob/master/defaults/main.yml#L51

[pcm32]

Maybe I should have come back to this (I first saw the error in Oct but went back to work on this in Dec and forgot about this issue). I realised the issue here was that the python3 installation (happened with compiled from source and brew installation) I was basing on had some issues in the system where it was running to obtain information from the user database:

import os
import pwd
pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 2074'

this apparently impacted in the ability of ansible to set the user uid and hence the failure. The comparison I was mentioning was based on a different target system, where the python3 installation didn't suffer from this. So I think that this was more of an issue on my side and hence I'll close this. If you are here because you run into the same problem, and the above snippet works for you, then feel free to re-open.