[BUG] Role fails with "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'systemd'"

[ProfessorSalty]

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here but I'm new to Ansible. I'm running into an issue doing a dry run of this role.

Describe the bug
When running the role (with --check') on a new Ubuntu 20.04 VM in Proxmox, it fails on timesyncd.confwithAnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'systemd'`.

To Reproduce
Build a brand new Ubuntu 20.04 VM and do a dry run (--check) of the role on it.

Expected behavior
To run without crashing.

System (lsb_release -a):

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

Additional context

# playbook.yml
- name: 'Provision Image'
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - { 
      role: konstruktoid.hardening, 
      sshd_port: 56789
      }
  become: true
  remote_user: toor

[konstruktoid]

Hi @ProfessorSalty, thanks for reporting the issue. I'll have a look at it, but I assume it was meant to be opened in https://github.com/konstruktoid/ansible-role-hardening

[konstruktoid]

Since the --check doesn't actually change anything, the custom facts directories and files aren't created. This results in the ansible_local.systemd.version and related facts are missing.

~$ ls -l /etc/ansible/facts.d/systemd.fact
ls: cannot access '/etc/ansible/facts.d/systemd.fact': No such file or directory

The --check will also fail on anything that requires some kind of interaction:

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check 'needrestart_directory.stat.exists and needrestart_restart_set.rc != 0' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (needrestart_directory.stat.exists and needrestart_restart_set.rc != 0): 'dict object' has no attribute 'rc'\n\nThe error appears to be in '/private/etc/ansible/roles/konstruktoid.hardening/tasks/packages.yml': line 42, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: configure needrestart\n  ^ here\n"}

[ProfessorSalty]

Ah, yes, I suppose this is the wrong repo. Sorry about that. I appreciate you taking your time out for the explanation - it looks like I can't just blindly check my tasks, so I'll have to modify my config to account for missing facts. Thanks so much!