ERROR! Invalid shell type specified (bash), or the plugin for that shell type is missing.

[Nico K.]

Hi,

To ensure that all our playbooks continue running on the upcoming Ansible 2.0, I decided to give it a test run.
Did a clean checkout in a new tree and attempted to run my playbooks, sadly I immediately run into an error:

TASK [ec2-group : ec2-group : include] ******************************************
fatal: [xxxx]: FAILED! => {"msg": "ERROR! Invalid shell type specified (bash), or the plugin for that shell type is missing.", "failed": true}

Contents of this role:
---
- include: vpc.yml
  when: ec2_vpc_id is defined

- include: non-vpc.yml
  when: ec2_vpc_id is not defined

Both of those files invoke the 'ec2_group' module on their turn.
Just to make sure, after this I installed ansible (current release) using pip and ran the playbooks without any problems.

Thanks,
Nico

[Nico K.]

My ansible.cfg has executable set to '/bin/bash'.

[Brian Coca]

Try this as a workaround, set ansible_shell_type=sh for all the
hosts, if that works I'm pretty sure I can solve the issue.


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Brian Coca

[Nico K.]

I should have been more thorough in my previous reply, when I mentioned it I was trying to point out that was causing the problem.

Disabling the option so it defaults to sh or explicitly specifying sh makes the problem go away.

[Brian Coca]

ok, so it seems we just need to make sure when we have bash as the
executable to set the shell type to sh

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Brian Coca

[Aneesh Joseph]

I'm also facing the same issue, if I set ansible_shell_type=sh when I use executable=/bin/bash, it works.