Can't gather facts when running seperate Task.

[vandlol]

TASK [_gather_facts : Gather facts] ******************************************************************************
11:59:24 I p=29093 u=root | : TASK [_gather_facts : Gather facts] ******************************************************************************
fatal: [tbi_client01]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (setup) module: _ansible_shell_executable Supported parameters include: fact_path,filter,gather_subset,gather_timeout"}
11:59:24 E p=29093 u=root | : fatal: [tbi_client01]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (setup) module: _ansible_shell_executable Supported parameters include: fact_path,filter,gather_subset,gather_timeout"}

task looks like this:

• name: Gather facts
  action: setup

while gather_facts: no is set in my playbook

[dw]

Hi Max, Can you include the output of "ansible --version", the OS you're on and the OS of the target machine. This seems to work for me locally.

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:52:45AM -0800, maxhenze wrote: TASK [_gather_facts : Gather facts] ****************************************************************************** 11:59:24 I p=29093 u=root | : TASK [_gather_facts : Gather facts] ****************************************************************************** fatal: [tbi_client01]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (setup) module: _ansible_shell_executable Supported parameters include: fact_path,filter,gather_subset,gather_timeout"} 11:59:24 E p=29093 u=root | : fatal: [tbi_client01]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (setup) module: _ansible_shell_executable Supported parameters include: fact_path,filter,gather_subset,gather_timeout"} task looks like this: • name: Gather facts action: setup while gather_facts: no is set in my playbook — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[dw]

Ok, I can see some interesting stuff in the log I didn't notice when reading via e-mail. It looks like it might be passing too many variables into setup. Let me have a play

[vandlol]

Target:
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.3"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="42.3"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

Machine running ansible:
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
VERSION="20171010"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20171010"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171010"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

ansible --version
ansible 2.4.2.0
config file = /siam/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u'/siam/ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible', u'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ara/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.14 (default, Oct 12 2017, 15:50:02) [GCC]

[dw]

Can you share the command line you used to run it? Any ansible*_executable variables are handled specially by the modules, but there is another code path where they aren't, but I can't figure out how it gets triggered :)

[vandlol]

Since ansible can't handle ssh-keys from variables yet i had to come up with some sort of work around for my problem.
I decrypt my ssh key from my gpg encrypted passwordstore and store it during runtime in a temporary file which is removed after my run has finished

Playbook: test.yml

- hosts: ToBeInstalled
  roles:
    - testing
  gather_facts: no

Role testing:

- name: Decrypt SSH-Keys
  include_role:
    name: _add_ssh_key

- name: Gather Facts
  include_role:
    name: _gather_facts

Role _decrypt_ssh_key:

- name: decrypt password to local key
  copy:
    content: "{{ lookup('passwordstore', 'ssh-keys/' + inventory_hostname + '_rsa returnall=true') }}"
    dest: "{{ playbook_dir }}/tmp/ssh/{{ inventory_hostname }}_rsa"
    mode: 0400
  delegate_to: localhost

While in my host_vars:

ansible_ssh_private_key_file: /siam/ansible/playbooks/tmp/ssh/tbi_client01_rsa

is set

ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen ansible-playbook playbooks/test.yml

[vandlol]

also - i pressed the wrong button while commenting

[dw]

At what point does the setup module get called in this structure? Is it from within another role?

[dw]

Whoops, now I understand :)

[dw]

I'm going to have to read the code line-by-line later to figure this out, I've reproduced your playbook structure and cannot trigger the problem with your exact version of Ansible. We're still missing something. Do you have anything magical in ansible.cfg?

[vandlol]

ok - i stripped down my config to only use your strategy plugin + directory informations

• no difference

from what i get the module_args get lost as soon as i m running with mitogen, when mitogen is not enabled default module_args are passed to the setup task:

fatal: [tbi_client01]: FAILED! => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {}
},

w/o mitogen:
"invocation": {"module_args": {"filter": "*", "gather_subset": ["all"], "fact_path": "/etc/ansible/facts.d", "gather_timeout": 10}}