unabel to use pipelining on centos 6.6 -> amazon linux

[Alex Leonhardt]

Hi guys,

I've been trying to use pipelining to make use of ControlPersist etc. - however - ansible is failing to run the play due to asking for the sudo password (?) which I already gave (I verified it works): 

$ time ansible-playbook -i ./inventory --user ec2-user -b --ask-become-pass play.yml -vvvv

SUDO password:

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

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************

<> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ec2-user

<***hostnamegoeshere***> REMOTE_MODULE setup

<***hostnamegoeshere***> EXEC ssh -C -vvv -F ssh_config -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=ec2-user -o ConnectTimeout=10 ***hostnamegoeshere*** /bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=kayjxhclpvxspztayzfyvgilpiefprue] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-kayjxhclpvxspztayzfyvgilpiefprue; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python'"'"''

fatal: [***hostnamegoeshere***] => ssh connection error while waiting for sudo password prompt

TASK: [debug msg="hello there"] ***********************************************

FATAL: no hosts matched or all hosts have already failed -- aborting

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

           to retry, use: --limit @/home/vagrant/play.retry

***hostnamegoeshere*** : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0

real 0m16.008s

user 0m0.191s

sys 0m0.661s

$ cat ansible.cfg

[defaults]

host_key_checking = False

[ssh_connection]

pipelining = True

ssh_args = -F ssh_config

#control_path = %(directory)s/%%h-%%r

$ cat ~/.ssh/config

Host *

ControlMaster auto

ControlPath /tmp/.ssh-%r@%h:%p

ControlPersist 60

$ ssh -V

OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013

$ rpm -qa | grep openssh

openssh-clients-5.3p1-104.el6_6.1.x86_64

openssh-server-5.3p1-104.el6_6.1.x86_64

openssh-5.3p1-104.el6_6.1.x86_64

$cat play.yml

---

- name: test play

  hosts: ****hostnamegoeshere****

  sudo: yes

  tasks:

    - debug: msg="hello there"

Anyone got any ideas why this is not working ? A normal play currently seems to take ~20minutes to complete -- I've also got a fabric file that copys over the directory,etc. and runs ansible locally which runs in ~1minute ... 

All / any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks!
Alex

[Alex Leonhardt]

So someone on irc pointed me at the Default !requiretty ... done that too - same problem.

Alex