Getting failed to execute: ansible.legacy.setup

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Jade Foram

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Jun 5, 2021, 12:36:04 PM6/5/21

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Running ansible version 2.10.4 with Python 3.6.8 gives the following error:

fatal: [server001.example.ca]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "failed_modules": {"ansible.legacy.setup": {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to server001.example.ca closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "\r\nMOTD Message\r\n\r\n\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}}, "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: ansible.legacy.setup\n"}

The target server is RHEL 7.9 with with python 2.7.

Please help.

Jade Foram

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Jun 6, 2021, 10:34:12 AM6/6/21

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For anyone having this issue, here is the solution.

The reason it was throwing that error was that the target server was using dzdo instead of sudo. Changing