handlers not being played

[Johan Söderberg]

Hi,

I have a problem where handlers not being played. I've narrowed it down to the following situation:

test.yml:
---
- hosts: test
  roles:
   - role: common
     when: commonrole_has_run is not defined

roles/common/tasks/main.yml
---
- name: Debug common role
  shell: date
  notify:
    - debug_handler
  tags: debug

- set_fact: commonrole_has_run=true
  when: commonrole_has_run is not defined

roles/common/handlers/main.yml
---
- name: debug_handler
  debug: msg="debug_handler"
  tags: debug

When I run the playbook test.yml:
PLAY [test] *******************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [tst01-adm.example.com]

TASK: [common | Debug common role] ********************************************
changed: [tst01-adm.example.com]

TASK: [common | set_fact commonrole_has_run=true] *****************************
ok: [tst01-adm.example.com]

NOTIFIED: [common | debug_handler] ********************************************
skipping: [tst01-adm.example.com]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
tst01-adm.example.com : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0


Now if I remove the set_fact from roles/common/tasks/main.yml the handler is run:

PLAY [test] *******************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [tst01-adm.example.com]

TASK: [common | Debug common role] ********************************************
changed: [tst01-adm.example.com]

NOTIFIED: [common | debug_handler] ********************************************
ok: [tst01-adm.example.com] => {
    "msg": "debug_handler"
}

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
tst01-adm.example.com : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0


I hope someone can shed some light why the handler is not being played? The reason for the set_fact is to avoid the common role being run more than once in a larger site with lots of roles.

Thanks in advance,

/Johan Söderberg

[James Cammarata]

Hi Johan, with which version of Ansible are you seeing this?

James Cammarata

Director, Ansible Core Engineering

github: jimi-c

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[Johan Söderberg]

I'm running 1.9.4 installed from the fedora epel repo.

/Johan

[Johan Söderberg]

Hi James,

I'm running 1.9.4 installed from the fedora epel repo.

/Johan