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ansible troubleshooting
undefined variable
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
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