Conditional errors with Ansible 2.19 #511
Description
Description
Ansible 12 (or 2.19) changed conditionals to require yielding boolean results.
To reproduce
Apply the role with systemd timers.
Current behavior
TASK [hifis.unattended_upgrades : Deploy apt-daily timer] ************************************************************************************* 17:06:57
[ERROR]: Task failed: Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'dict' at '/Users/agross/.ansible/roles/hifis.unattended_upgrades/tasks/systemd_timers.yml:44:7'. Conditionals must have a boolean result.
Task failed.
Origin: /Users/agross/.ansible/roles/hifis.unattended_upgrades/tasks/systemd_timers.yml:35:3
33 register: '_apt_daily_upgrade_timer_d'
34
35 - name: 'Deploy apt-daily timer'
^ column 3
<<< caused by >>>
Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'dict' at '/Users/agross/.ansible/roles/hifis.unattended_upgrades/tasks/systemd_timers.yml:44:7'. Conditionals must have a boolean result.
Origin: /Users/agross/.ansible/roles/hifis.unattended_upgrades/tasks/systemd_timers.yml:44:7
42 when:
43 - '_apt_daily.rc == 0'
44 - '_apt_daily_timer_d' # skip if run for the first time in check mode
^ column 7
Broken conditionals can be temporarily allowed with the `ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS` configuration option.
fatal: [nest]: FAILED! =>
changed: false
msg: 'Task failed: Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type ''dict''
at ''/Users/agross/.ansible/roles/hifis.unattended_upgrades/tasks/systemd_timers.yml:44:7''.
Conditionals must have a boolean result.'
Expected behavior
The _apt_daily_timer_d test should yield boolean, not truthy.
OS / Environment
Doesn’t matter in this case, but I have a Mac.
Ansible version
$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.19.3]
config file = /Users/agross/lab/ansible-home-network/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/Users/agross/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/12.1.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /Users/agross/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible
python version = 3.13.9 (main, Oct 14 2025, 13:52:31) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.3.19.1)] (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/12.1.0/libexec/bin/python)
jinja version = 3.1.6
pyyaml version = 6.0.3 (with libyaml v0.2.5)
Collection version
v3.2.1
Additional context
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/porting_guide_12.html#broken-conditionals