Ansible Reboot Error...

[kmarty009]

I get this error when executing my playbook.  I need to reboot the machine but cannot get around this insane error that is preventing me from doing so.. the plybook works until I add the last line for reboot.  Can anyone tell me what is wrong here please???  Thanks in advance.  

**** ERROR SECTION*****

ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in '/home/kmarty/ansible/roles/basic/tasks/main.yml': line 53, column 3, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Reboot Machine

  ^ here

The error appears to have been in '/home/kmarty/ansible/roles/basic/tasks/main.yml': line 53, column 3, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Reboot Machine

  ^ here

exception type: <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleParserError'>

exception: no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in '/home/kmarty/ansible/roles/basic/tasks/main.yml': line 53, column 3, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Reboot Machine

  ^ here

**** PLAYBOOK******

#Ansible Configuration Playbook for On-Premise Installs

#Created by: Kirk Marty kmar...@gmail.com

#Version 1.0 

#Date: 3/31/2020

- name: "Required Software Packages that will be utilized - yum installs"

  yum: pkg={{ item }} state=installed

  with_items:

  - nano

  - vim

  - tar

  - xz

  - unzip

  - wget

  - curl

  - bind-utils

  - net-tools

  - ntp

  - epel-release

# Update the system to latest patches and applications via yum

- name: "update the Centos Server 7 with latest patches and applications"

  yum:

    name: "*"

    state: latest

- name: be sure firewalld is installed

  yum: name=firewalld state=installed

  tags:

   - install

   - firewalld

 

- name: be sure firewalld is disabled

  systemd: name=firewalld enabled=no

  tags:

   - install

   - atomic

   - firewalld

- name: be sure firewalld is stopped

  systemd: name=firewalld state=stopped

  ignore_errors: yes

  tags:

   - install

   - atomic

   - firewalld

- name: Disable SELinux

  selinux:

    state: disabled

- name: Reboot Server to apply some changes and updates

  reboot:

[Dick Visser]

This usually means that the ansible version you use does not know that module.
According to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/reboot_module.html
the reboot module was introduced in 2.7.
This indicates you're using something older.

What is the output of 'ansible --version'?

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[Jordan Borean]

It’s telling you it cannot find the reboot module/plugin. Make sure you are on Ansible 2.7 or higher as that is when the module was added https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/reboot_module.html,

[kmarty009]

Interesting!  Thanks for the responses!  I really appreciate it.  

I'm new to ansible and trying to get into a love affair with it.  I'm running CentOS 7.7.1908 and Ansible 2.4.2.0 was installed.  

I did a yum install epel-release and I got installed new version at 2.9.6  

Of course, that worked and rebooted my machine!  However, I did run into new issues with DEPRECATION WARNING.  I think it's not liking the state=installed.  If I'm reading the manual (RTFM) it wants a newer flag of state=present.  

I also don't think it's loving the {{ item }} flag and wants something different.  {{ packages }}?  

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Invoking "yum" only once while using a loop via squash_actions is deprecated. Instead of using a loop to supply

multiple items and specifying `pkg: "{{ item }}"`, please use `pkg: ['nano', 'vim', 'tar', 'xz', 'unzip', 'wget', 'curl', 'bind-utils', 'net-

tools', 'ntp', 'epel-release']` and remove the loop. This feature will be removed in version 2.11. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by

setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Invoking "yum" only once while using a loop via squash_actions is deprecated. Instead of using a loop to supply

multiple items and specifying `pkg: "{{ item }}"`, please use `pkg: ['nano', 'vim', 'tar', 'xz', 'unzip', 'wget', 'curl', 'bind-utils', 'net-

tools', 'ntp', 'epel-release']` and remove the loop. This feature will be removed in version 2.11. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by

setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.

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[kmarty009]

I got it all working.  I had to update the hosts, file and use new syntax that was outlined in the documentation.  Thanks everyone, I'm all good!