Running playbook in interactive mode breaks upon run

[Samnang Sen]

ansible-playbook -i hosts test.yml --step

Output:

PLAY [webservers] *************************************************************

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 316, in <module>

    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 256, in main

    pb.run()

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 352, in run

    if not self._run_play(play):

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 796, in _run_play

    if not self._run_task(play, task, False):

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 487, in _run_task

    self.callbacks.on_task_start(name, is_handler)

  File "/home/deployment/ansible/lib/ansible/callbacks.py", line 637, in on_task_start

    msg = msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace')

TypeError: encode() takes no keyword arguments

# test.yml

- hosts: webservers

  gather_facts: no

  vars_files:

  - "group_vars/deploy_list_sam"

  pre_tasks:

    - name: disable service in the lb

      netscaler: nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=disable validate_certs=no

      delegate_to: 127.0.0.1

      tags: ns_remove_web

  roles:

    - web

  post_tasks:

    - name: enable in the lb

      netscaler: nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=enable validate_certs=no

      delegate_to: 127.0.0.1

      tags: ns_add_web

[Samnang Sen]

FYI. Ansible version is 1.8.2 and I tried it from the devel branch.

[tkuratomi]

Could you update your devel branch checkout and try it again?  I found the issue and think I committed a fix for it.  Just would like confirmation :-)

-Toshio

[Samnang Sen]

Awesome! Works!

Thank you

[Rick Kasten]

I am getting a similar error when running my playbook with '--step' with Ansible 1.8.4:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/dse/dse text.yml

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

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [dse02]
ok: [twp01]

TASK: [common | Build inventory group] ****************************************
ok: [dse02] => (item=dse02)
ok: [dse02] => (item=twp01)

TASK: [common | Reload facts after updating site group] ***********************
ok: [dse02]
ok: [twp01]

TASK: [common | Set JBoss facts] **********************************************
skipping: [dse02]
skipping: [twp01]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
dse02                      : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0
twp01                      : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/dse/dse test.yml --step

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

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [twp01]
ok: [dse02]

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 326, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 266, in main
    pb.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 347, in run
    if not self._run_play(play):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 740, in _run_play

    if not self._run_task(play, task, False):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 474, in _run_task
    self.callbacks.on_task_start(template(play.basedir, name, task.module_vars, lookup_fatal=False, filter_fatal=False), is_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/callbacks.py", line 636, in on_task_start

    msg = msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace')
TypeError: encode() takes no keyword arguments

# test.yml
- hosts: all
  roles:
  - common