Running playbook only achieves taps and cask installation

[joshbarrington]

I am running the playbook with the following custom config:

downloads: ~/.ansible-downloads/

configure_dotfiles: true
configure_terminal: false
configure_osx: true

configure_dock: false
dockitems_remove: []
dockitems_persist: []

configure_sudoers: false
sudoers_custom_config: ""

dotfiles_repo: https://github.com/Joshbarrington/dotfiles.git
dotfiles_repo_accept_hostkey: true
dotfiles_repo_local_destination: ~/github/dotfiles
dotfiles_files:
  - .gitconfig
  - .gitignoreglobal
  - .osx
  - .zshrc
  - .treeignore

homebrew_installed_packages:
  - aws-shell
  - awscli
  - azure-cli
  - asdf
  - bat
  - broot
  - ccls
  - clang-format
  - cmake
  - ctags
  - curl
  - exa
  - fd
  - ffmpeg
  - fswatch
  - fzf
  - fx
  - gh
  - gcc
  - git
  - httpie
  - hub
  - jq
  - mas
  - neovim
  - node
  - openssl
  - ripgrep
  - rename
  - tig
  - tree
  - tmuxinator
  - rustup-init
  - unzip
  - wget
  - zsh
  - zsh-autosuggestions
  - youtube-dl
  - git-lfs
  - pre-commit

homebrew_taps:
  - homebrew/core
  - homebrew/cask-fonts

homebrew_cask_appdir: /Applications
homebrew_cask_apps:
  - docker
  - rectangle
  - firefox
  - google-chrome
  - licecap
  - slack
  - iterm2
  - dash
  - tunnelblick
  - keybase
  - spotify
  - visual-studio-code
  - postman
  - font-fira-code
  - font-fira-code-nerd-font
  - maccy
  - vlc
  - xld
  - audio-hijack
  - keycastr
  - beardedspice
  - chromedriver
  - keepassxc
  - signal
  - whatsapp
  - touchdesigner
  - pgadmin4
  - nordvpn
  - soulseek
  - rekordbox

# See https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook for below config options.
mas_installed_apps: []
mas_email: ""
mas_password: ""

osx_script: "sudo bash ~/.osx --no-restart"

composer_packages: []

gem_packages: []

npm_packages: []

pip_packages: []

configure_sublime: false

post_provision_tasks: []

The playbook runs successfully but the only tasks that actually take place are homebrew_taps and homebrew_cask_apps.

Do you have any idea why this happens?

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[DS-Matt]

Similar/same issue here. Hopefully someone can respond on this.

[hodgesd]

I had the same question. Is there an active discourse or discord forum on ansible?

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[DS-Matt]

It looks like

I am running the playbook with the following custom config:

downloads: ~/.ansible-downloads/

configure_dotfiles: true
configure_terminal: false
configure_osx: true

configure_dock: false
dockitems_remove: []
dockitems_persist: []

configure_sudoers: false
sudoers_custom_config: ""

dotfiles_repo: https://github.com/Joshbarrington/dotfiles.git
dotfiles_repo_accept_hostkey: true
dotfiles_repo_local_destination: ~/github/dotfiles
dotfiles_files:
  - .gitconfig
  - .gitignoreglobal
  - .osx
  - .zshrc
  - .treeignore

homebrew_installed_packages:
  - aws-shell
  - awscli
  - azure-cli
  - asdf
  - bat
  - broot
  - ccls
  - clang-format
  - cmake
  - ctags
  - curl
  - exa
  - fd
  - ffmpeg
  - fswatch
  - fzf
  - fx
  - gh
  - gcc
  - git
  - httpie
  - hub
  - jq
  - mas
  - neovim
  - node
  - openssl
  - ripgrep
  - rename
  - tig
  - tree
  - tmuxinator
  - rustup-init
  - unzip
  - wget
  - zsh
  - zsh-autosuggestions
  - youtube-dl
  - git-lfs
  - pre-commit

homebrew_taps:
  - homebrew/core
  - homebrew/cask-fonts

homebrew_cask_appdir: /Applications
homebrew_cask_apps:
  - docker
  - rectangle
  - firefox
  - google-chrome
  - licecap
  - slack
  - iterm2
  - dash
  - tunnelblick
  - keybase
  - spotify
  - visual-studio-code
  - postman
  - font-fira-code
  - font-fira-code-nerd-font
  - maccy
  - vlc
  - xld
  - audio-hijack
  - keycastr
  - beardedspice
  - chromedriver
  - keepassxc
  - signal
  - whatsapp
  - touchdesigner
  - pgadmin4
  - nordvpn
  - soulseek
  - rekordbox

# See https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook for below config options.
mas_installed_apps: []
mas_email: ""
mas_password: ""

osx_script: "sudo bash ~/.osx --no-restart"

composer_packages: []

gem_packages: []

npm_packages: []

pip_packages: []

configure_sublime: false

post_provision_tasks: []

The playbook runs successfully but the only tasks that actually take place are homebrew_taps and homebrew_cask_apps.

Do you have any idea why this happens?

I just noticed you don't have any variables defined for the composer, gem, npm, and pip packages, so that might by why the install additional packages doesn't work, but I would expect it to do the dotfiles and osx script setup.

Again, hopefully someone with more experience than me can respond with a solution.

[S-git1]

I am having a similar issue where the .osx script setup does not work. Perhaps it doesn't work for MacOS 13?
Still very new to Ansible. Ran the script and this is what I get:

studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master % ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
Starting galaxy role install process

• downloading role 'osx-command-line-tools', owned by elliotweiser
• downloading role from https://github.com/elliotweiser/ansible-osx-command-line-tools/archive/2.3.0.tar.gz
• extracting elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools to /Users/studioadmin/Downloads/mac-dev-playbook-master/roles/elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools
• elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools (2.3.0) was installed successfully
• downloading role 'dotfiles', owned by geerlingguy
• downloading role from https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-dotfiles/archive/1.2.1.tar.gz
• extracting geerlingguy.dotfiles to /Users/studioadmin/Downloads/mac-dev-playbook-master/roles/geerlingguy.dotfiles
• geerlingguy.dotfiles (1.2.1) was installed successfully
  Starting galaxy collection install process
  Process install dependency map
  Starting collection install process
  Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/geerlingguy-mac-2.1.1.tar.gz to /Users/studioadmin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7465_98l4fh6/tmp4tgovnsv/geerlingguy-mac-2.1.1-bqvu6tgk
  Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/community-general-6.5.0.tar.gz to /Users/studioadmin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7465_98l4fh6/tmp4tgovnsv/community-general-6.5.0-obe9irct
  Installing 'geerlingguy.mac:2.1.1' to '/Users/studioadmin/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/geerlingguy/mac'
  geerlingguy.mac:2.1.1 was installed successfully
  Installing 'community.general:6.5.0' to '/Users/studioadmin/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general'
  community.general:6.5.0 was installed successfully
  studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master % ansible-playbook main.yml -K --tags "dotfiles"
  BECOME password:

PLAY [Configure host.] *********************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
[WARNING]: Platform darwin on host 127.0.0.1 is using the discovered Python
interpreter at /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.11, but future installation of another
Python interpreter could change the meaning of that path. See
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-
core/2.14/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.
ok: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [Include playbook configuration.] *****************************************
skipping: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Ensure dotfiles repository is cloned locally.] ****
changed: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Ensure all configured dotfiles are links.] ********
ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=.osx)

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Remove existing dotfiles file if a replacement is being linked.] ***
ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[0, {'changed': False, 'stdout': '', 'stderr': 'ls: /Users/studioadmin/.osx: No such file or directory', 'rc': 1, 'cmd': ['ls', '-F', '~/.osx'], 'start': '2023-04-11 00:13:41.988786', 'end': '2023-04-11 00:13:41.993541', 'delta': '0:00:00.004755', 'failed': False, 'msg': 'non-zero return code', 'invocation': {'module_args': {'_raw_params': 'ls -F ~/.osx', '_uses_shell': False, 'stdin_add_newline': True, 'strip_empty_ends': True, 'argv': None, 'chdir': None, 'executable': None, 'creates': None, 'removes': None, 'stdin': None}}, 'stdout_lines': [], 'stderr_lines': ['ls: /Users/studioadmin/.osx: No such file or directory'], 'failed_when_result': False, 'item': '.osx', 'ansible_loop_var': 'item'}])

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Link dotfiles into home folder.] ******************
changed: [127.0.0.1] => (item=.osx)

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
127.0.0.1 : ok=5 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0

studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master %

[DS-Matt]

I am having a similar issue where the .osx script setup does not work. Perhaps it doesn't work for MacOS 13? Still very new to Ansible. Ran the script and this is what I get:

studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master % ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml Starting galaxy role install process

* downloading role 'osx-command-line-tools', owned by elliotweiser

* downloading role from https://github.com/elliotweiser/ansible-osx-command-line-tools/archive/2.3.0.tar.gz

* extracting elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools to /Users/studioadmin/Downloads/mac-dev-playbook-master/roles/elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools

* elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools (2.3.0) was installed successfully

* downloading role 'dotfiles', owned by geerlingguy

* downloading role from https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-dotfiles/archive/1.2.1.tar.gz

* extracting geerlingguy.dotfiles to /Users/studioadmin/Downloads/mac-dev-playbook-master/roles/geerlingguy.dotfiles

* geerlingguy.dotfiles (1.2.1) was installed successfully
  Starting galaxy collection install process
  Process install dependency map
  Starting collection install process
  Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/geerlingguy-mac-2.1.1.tar.gz to /Users/studioadmin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7465_98l4fh6/tmp4tgovnsv/geerlingguy-mac-2.1.1-bqvu6tgk
  Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/community-general-6.5.0.tar.gz to /Users/studioadmin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7465_98l4fh6/tmp4tgovnsv/community-general-6.5.0-obe9irct
  Installing 'geerlingguy.mac:2.1.1' to '/Users/studioadmin/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/geerlingguy/mac'
  geerlingguy.mac:2.1.1 was installed successfully
  Installing 'community.general:6.5.0' to '/Users/studioadmin/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general'
  community.general:6.5.0 was installed successfully
  studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master % ansible-playbook main.yml -K --tags "dotfiles"
  BECOME password:

PLAY [Configure host.] *********************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ********************************************************* [WARNING]: Platform darwin on host 127.0.0.1 is using the discovered Python interpreter at /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.11, but future installation of another Python interpreter could change the meaning of that path. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible- core/2.14/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information. ok: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [Include playbook configuration.] ***************************************** skipping: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Ensure dotfiles repository is cloned locally.] **** changed: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Ensure all configured dotfiles are links.] ******** ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=.osx)

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Remove existing dotfiles file if a replacement is being linked.] *** ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[0, {'changed': False, 'stdout': '', 'stderr': 'ls: /Users/studioadmin/.osx: No such file or directory', 'rc': 1, 'cmd': ['ls', '-F', '~/.osx'], 'start': '2023-04-11 00:13:41.988786', 'end': '2023-04-11 00:13:41.993541', 'delta': '0:00:00.004755', 'failed': False, 'msg': 'non-zero return code', 'invocation': {'module_args': {'_raw_params': 'ls -F ~/.osx', '_uses_shell': False, 'stdin_add_newline': True, 'strip_empty_ends': True, 'argv': None, 'chdir': None, 'executable': None, 'creates': None, 'removes': None, 'stdin': None}}, 'stdout_lines': [], 'stderr_lines': ['ls: /Users/studioadmin/.osx: No such file or directory'], 'failed_when_result': False, 'item': '.osx', 'ansible_loop_var': 'item'}])

TASK [geerlingguy.dotfiles : Link dotfiles into home folder.] ****************** changed: [127.0.0.1] => (item=.osx)

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************* 127.0.0.1 : ok=5 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0

studioadmin@Mac-Studio mac-dev-playbook-master %

I don't think that is the case, as I can take the playbook data, copy it into a new tasks file and run it referencing that file and it works just fine on MacOS13. Also, your play gets farther than my playbook does, I get stopped after Homebrew installs casks, you get to Dotfiles...

[S-git1]

Have you tried running:

ansible-playbook main.yml -K --tags "dotfiles"

By itself?

Just to clarify, I have tried running the above and the full command:

ansible-playbook main.yml --ask-become-pass

And they both run without errors on the dotfiles part, but no changes actually occur for .osx settings.

I have tried running both commands above on two different Macs (one with M1 and the other with a M2 chip) with MacOS 13.3.1 so I wanted to check if anyone had success with MacOS 12.

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