UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 84: ordinal not in range(128)

[Joel Sdc]

Hi, 

I'm having a little problem. When I run a simple playbook, on some servers I get a UnicodeEncodeError and the playbook is not executed.

I have the role "users_admin", it creates 3 groups, makes sure that 4 users exist and have a specific password and set a root password if it has changed.

root@cm:/etc/ansible/roles/users_admin# tree

.

└── tasks

    └── main.yml

1 directory, 1 file

root@cm:/etc/ansible/roles/users_admin# cat tasks/main.yml

---

- name: Global group 'admins'

  group: name=admins state=present gid=2000

- name: Global group 'support' 

  group: name=support state=present gid=2001

- name: Global group 'developers'

  group: name=developers state=present gid=2002

- name: Common 'admin' users

  user: name={{ item.name }} comment={{ item.gecos }} group=admins state=present uid={{ item.uid }} update_password=always password={{ item.passwd }} shell=/bin/bash

  with_items:

        - name: test1

          gecos: "test1"

          uid: 2050

          passwd: $6$2trU.wqo$c.QAHAngzhx.i6VwGM9zGoh8KdX3e.2EAnzYf3SDdIBWZFVo4OdHQjPxVl/8wmmD6hWYnxeyMF9rLAfNMk3oa0

        - name: test2

          gecos: "test2"

          uid: 2051

          passwd: $6$xIKLieVe$oFdw1N/FjdPQzdMGkViaG8UMTMwGhNBKvtVxMIbcDFTu3udXYtrH5un0Obmr6d9gDC66DK/dNfpP6jlESRtan/

        - name: test3

          gecos: "test3"

          uid: 2052

          passwd: $6$9bJs8kiu$lS.Jz.cGdx5J3s.Mw5V80GzO.U6tLLMwztuDZJsAe2JjpYLCedR96fAHbHVaozv0zRUrtexErdgTYQU0o0tCh0

        - name: test4

          gecos: "test4"

          uid: 2053

          passwd: $6$tmUQlubJ$0HI532QrAnlTGHwJlLEuGU2/uSAr42I2Y6aEFBbPlmXborYOlmVeCl5vI.YBLo3HDTFt/mx98HXv7yMqqgifa/

- name: Set root password

  user: name=root update_password=always password=$6$HqRU2uvR$6GV6CYTbtkxpbX7POk9FGglzK3M4G8icIuEWlxnllDe4FswqsQQbIaEsbT/JhaQe9ot4pAS8A/1RDurOb1e/p.

root@cm:/etc/ansible/roles/users_admin#

And this is the playbook:

root@cm:/etc/ansible/playbooks# cat test.yml

---

- name: Common settings

  hosts: all

  roles:

    - users_admin

root@cm:/etc/ansible/playbooks#

When I run the playbook, It fails in a newly installed Debian 7.5:

root@cm:/etc/ansible/playbooks# ansible-playbook test.yml

PLAY [Common settings] ********************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************

ok: [test]

TASK: [users_admin | Global group 'admins'] ***************

ok: [test]

TASK: [users_admin | Global group 'support'] **************

ok: [test]

TASK: [users_admin | Global group 'developers'] ***********

ok: [test]

TASK: [users_admin | Common 'admin' users] ****************

fatal: [test] => Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 532, in _executor

    exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 660, in _executor_internal

    complex_args=complex_args

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 809, in _executor_internal_inner

    module_args = template.template(self.basedir, module_args, inject, fail_on_undefined=self.error_on_undefined_vars)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/template.py", line 321, in template

    varname = template_from_string(basedir, varname, vars, fail_on_undefined)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/ansible/utils/template.py", line 543, in template_from_string

    data = data.decode('utf-8')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode

    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 83: ordinal not in range(128)

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

           to retry, use: --limit @/root/test.retry

test                       : ok=4    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0

root@cm:/etc/ansible/playbooks#

Googling I found: http://mypy.pythonblogs.com/12_mypy/archive/1253_workaround_for_python_bug_ascii_codec_cant_encode_character_uxa0_in_position_111_ordinal_not_in_range128.html

Output:

root@test:~# python

Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)

[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import sys

>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()

'ascii'

>>>

root@test:~#

root@test:~# echo $LANG

en_US.UTF-8

root@test:~#

My Ansible version:

root@cm:/etc/ansible# ansible-playbook --version

ansible-playbook 1.5.5

root@cm:/etc/ansible#

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

If it helps, this problem does NOT occur on every server, It could be something misconfigured on the client side as the same playbook works perfectly on other servers.

Thanks in advanced.

Best regards, 

Joel.

[James Cammarata]

Can you try setting "module_lang = en_US.UTF-8" in your ansible.cfg to see if that corrects the issue?

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[Joel Sdc]

Hi James, 

I have tried:

a) setting "module_lang = en_US.UTF-8" in ansible.cfg 

b) editing /usr/share/pyshared/ansible/constants.py and changing:

DEFAULT_MODULE_LANG       = get_config(p, DEFAULTS, 'module_lang',      'ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG',      'C')

to

DEFAULT_MODULE_LANG       = get_config(p, DEFAULTS, 'module_lang',      'ANSIBLE_MODULE_LANG',      'en_US.UTF-8')

In both cases the problem persists. 

Any other ideas? 

thanks!!

[James Cammarata]

Go ahead and open an issue on github for this, and we'll dig into it deeper. If setting the module_lang doesn't fix things, then the issue may not be on the client side.

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[Joel Sdc]

Hi James, 

Before opening an issue, I have tried after updating to latest ansible version available and the problem is solved.

Should I still open a specific issue for the version I was using prior to upgrade?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards, 

Joel.

[Michael DeHaan]

No thank you, if it's already fixed we are good to go.

(For such reasons it's usually very useful to always indicate the ansible version when discussing a potential bug...)

Thanks!

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