YAML syntax error (beginner)

[WS]

Hello

I just started to use ansible so please bear with me. I managed to run a few basic playbooks but I am stuck with the following one (basic as well):

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: copy bashrc to .bashrc
    action: copy src=files/bashrc dest=~root/.bashrc backup=yes
  - name: copy bashrc to .bash_profile
    action: copy src=files/bashrc dest=~root/.bash_profile backup=yes
  - name: ensure joe is installed apt
    apt: pkg=joe state=latest update_cache=yes
    when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
  - name: ensure joe is installed yum
    apt: name=joe state=latest
    when: ansible_os_family == "CentOS" or ansible_os_family == "Fedora"

I get the following error when running it:

ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, commonconfig.yml
Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 7, column 1


  - name: copy bashrc to .bash_profile
        action: copy src=files/bashrc dest=~root/.bash_profile backup=yes

The script runs fine when there is only one name/action pair (the first one).

Sorry if this is obvious but I am just starting with YAML.

[James Tanner]

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It seems like the error is pointing out that action: is not aligned with name:

I'm not sure what editor you are using but perhaps you could replace all tabs with spaces and then make sure things are lined up correctly.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11094383/how-can-i-convert-tabs-to-spaces-in-every-file-of-a-directory

[Brian Green]

While this may not be the cause of your issues, the following is (or will be) an issue for you.

  - name: ensure joe is installed yum
    apt: name=joe state=latest
    when: ansible_os_family == "CentOS" or ansible_os_family == "Fedora"

change to:

  - name: ensure joe is

 installed yum
    yum: name=joe state=latest
    when: ansible_os_family == "CentOS" or ansible_os_family == "Fedora"

[WS]

Thank you for your help. I was not aware that tabs are not allowed (I finally RTFM, that is the YAML reference).

Changing this immediately helped.