SSH fine but keep getting errors running test playbook

[Shiyan Cao]

Hi,

Does anyone know why I'm getting the error? SSH connection is working fine.

# ansible-playbook -i inventory/qalabs -l xxxxxxx -u root -D test.yml

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************

fatal: [xxxxxx]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "failed to resolve remote temporary directory from ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071: `mkdir -p \"` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071 `\" && echo \"` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071 `\"` returned empty string"}

NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************

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

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

xxxxxxx : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

[Johannes Kastl]

On 06.02.17 21:03 Shiyan Cao wrote:

> Does anyone know why I'm getting the error? SSH connection is
> working fine.

> fatal: [xxxxxx]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "failed to
> resolve remote temporary directory from
> ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071: `mkdir -p \"` echo
> $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071 `\" &&
> echo \"` echo
> $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1486411214.9-201171589973071 `\"`
> returned empty string"}

Does using an ad-hoc ping work?

ansible -m ping foobar
(where foobar is your target hostname)

If yes, run your playbook with -v (or even -vvv) to get some more output.

Johannes