msg = unicode(msg).encode('utf8') LookupError

[Nic Flores]

Hi All,

I'm seeing the following error:

When I run the following command:

ansible my_server -i sdc_hosts -m ping -u ansible --ask-pass

against a server running:

myserver$ python --version

Python 2.6.6

myserver | FAILED >> {

    "failed": true,

    "msg": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403299259.38-79129513838413/command\", line 1383, in <module>\n    main()\n  File \"/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403299259.38-79129513838413/command\", line 91, in main\n    module = CommandModule(argument_spec=dict())\n  File \"/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403299259.38-79129513838413/command\", line 382, in __init__\n    self._log_invocation()\n  File \"/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403299259.38-79129513838413/command\", line 974, in _log_invocation\n    msg = unicode(msg).encode('utf8')\nLookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding\n",

    "parsed": false

}

Does anyone have an idea as to what my be causing this?

[Michael DeHaan]

Hi Nick,

Can we get a quick check of what "ansible --version" says?

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[Nic Flores]

Here you go:

ansible 1.6 (devel a37a84243b) last updated 2014/04/16 17:45:50 (GMT +000)

Nic

[Michael DeHaan]

You're three dot releases back - see if this occurs in 1.6.3 if you don't mind - and file a bug if it does.

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[Nic Flores]

I just did a git clone and I am now running the following version of ansible

-bash-4.1$ ansible --version

ansible 1.7 (devel f8bf9cdeec) last updated 2014/06/23 20:27:32 (GMT +000):

and now I get a different error:

-bash-4.1$ ansible myserver -i ../inventory/hosts -m ping -u ansible --ask-pass

SSH password:

my server | FAILED >> {

    "failed": true,

    "msg": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1403556652.28-139660901347999/ping\", line 97, in <module>\n    import locale\n  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.6/locale.py\", line 14, in <module>\nImportError: No module named encodings\n",

    "parsed": false

}

any thoughts?

[James Cammarata]

The exception you're seeing is coming from inside a python-distributed package, so this would seem to be a python pathing problem. Do you have multiple versions of python installed, and/or did you install python from source? 

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[Nic Flores]

James,

Thanks for pinning this down for me. I'll look into how python was installed on the server. At least now I know the problem is now on the server side and not on the ansible side.