{{tag>ansible troubleshooting}}

====== ansible troubleshooting ======
===== undefined variable =====
<code>
atal: [10.21.21.11]: FAILED! =>                                                                                                                                                                                   
  msg: |-                                                                                                                                                                                                          
    The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'ansible.vars.hostvars.HostVarsVars object' has no attribute bla bla
</code>

Check the names in group_vars! They need to match the name of the group in the inventory file.

===== AttributeError: module 'lib' has no attribute 'OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms' =====

Check versions of ansible and dependencies. This was caused by the upgraded cryptography package (and using the old ansible version - 2.9.27) which was being source from ''/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/''. This fixed it:

  sudo pip uninstall cryptography

to uninstall from system directory and then run this (notice no sudo) to install it in user's directory ''/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages''

  pip install cryptography==2.6.1

Or just use a newer version of ansible which can use newer version of cryptography package.

===== .local/bin/ansible: No such file or directory =====
Happened when pip installing 9.3.0 version over 2.9.27.

Uninstall old version first
  pip uninstall 2.9.27

Make sure no ansible dirs are leftover:

  ~$ ls /home/antisa/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible*
  ls: cannot access '/home/antisa/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible*': No such file or directory

Now install via pip 
  pip install ansible

===== unsupported locale setting =====

  ERROR: Ansible could not initialize the preferred locale: unsupported locale setting

This might happen when you ssh into a server which doesn't have your locale generated (the one you are using on your local machine) and you are forwarding the locale over ssh (see ''SendEnv'' and ''AcceptEnv'' in ssh_config and sshd_config on your machine and server respectively).

Fix is to simply generate the locale:
  vi /etc/locale.gen
uncomment your locale e.g.
  hr_HR.UTF-8

Then run
  locale-gen

====== See also ======
  * [[wiki:ansible_debug_one_variable|Ansible debug one variable]]
  * [[wiki:ansible_debug_all_variables|Ansible debug all variables]]

====== References ======