Ansbile fails to connect while ssh works

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Jack Minardi

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Apr 8, 2016, 9:34:38 PM4/8/16
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Hi all,

I may be doing something completely stupid but I failing to get even a basic ping to work.

I have been using ansible for a few weeks and everything has been going great. However today everything stopped working.

I am running ansible from OS X 10.10.5 and the host is a raspberry pi running raspbian jessie. I can ssh into my raspberry pi fine, both with a password and with a private key. I put my pi's IP address in /etc/ansible/hosts. The following basic ping command fails:

ansible all -m ping -u pi --ask-pass -vvvv


The output is:

No config file found; using defaults




SSH password
:


Loaded callback minimal of type stdout, v2.0


<192.168.2.3> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: pi on PORT 22 TO 192.168.2.3


192.168.2.3 | UNREACHABLE! => {


   
"changed": false,


   
"msg": "ERROR! timed out",


   
"unreachable": true


}



My pi is connected to my mac via ethernet with a direct connection. I have tried with both paramiko and ssh. I have tried both password and private key. The crazy thing is this was working before and I don't think I changed anything. 

Any help would be much appreciated. Let me know if there is any more info that would be helpful.

Jack

Johannes Kastl

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Apr 9, 2016, 1:47:45 PM4/9/16
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On 09.04.16 02:00 Jack Minardi wrote:

> <192.168.2.3> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: pi on PORT 22 TO 192.168.2.3

What happens if you use the raw module? Maybe python on the raspi got
messed up:

ansible -vvvv -m raw -a 'date' -u pi --ask-pass

Johannes

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Jack Minardi

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Apr 10, 2016, 7:39:34 PM4/10/16
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That seems to have worked, see the verbose output here: http://pastebin.com/p352vFvt

Johannes Kastl

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Apr 11, 2016, 3:09:55 PM4/11/16
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On 11.04.16 01:39 Jack Minardi wrote:
> That seems to have worked, see the verbose output
> here: http://pastebin.com/p352vFvt

Can you log into your raspi and issue the following commands:

which python
which python2
which python2.7
dpkg -l|grep python

and see what is returned? I guess either there is no python (in
version 2) installed, or it is in some path that ansible does not
recognize.

Johannes

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Jack Minardi

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Apr 12, 2016, 12:30:44 PM4/12/16
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pi@raspberry:~ $ which python

/usr/bin/python

pi@raspberry
:~ $ which python2

/usr/bin/python2

pi@raspberry
:~ $ which python2.7

/usr/bin/python2.7

pi@raspberry
:~ $ dpkg -l|grep python

ii  dh
-python                             1.20141111-2                              all          Debian helper tools for packaging Python libraries and applications

ii  idle
-python2.7                        2.7.9-2                                   all          IDE for Python (v2.7) using Tkinter

ii  idle
-python3.4                        3.4.2-1                                   all          IDE for Python (v3.4) using Tkinter

ii  libpython
-dev:armhf                   2.7.9-1                                   armhf        header files and a static library for Python (default)

ii  libpython
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ii  libpython2
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ii  libpython2
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ii  libpython3
-dev:armhf                  3.4.2-2                                   armhf        header files and a static library for Python (default)

ii  libpython3
-stdlib:armhf               3.4.2-2                                   armhf        interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)

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ii  libpython3
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ii  libpython3
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ii  python
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ii  python
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ii  python
-distlib                        0.1.9-1                                   all          low-level components of python distutils2/packaging

ii  python
-distlib-whl                    0.1.9-1                                   all          low-level components of python distutils2/packaging

ii  python
-gi                             3.14.0-1                                  armhf        Python 2.x bindings for gobject-introspection libraries

ii  python
-gobject-2                      2.28.6-12                                 armhf        deprecated static Python bindings for the GObject library

ii  python
-gpiozero                       1.1.0                                     all          Simple API for controlling devices attached to the GPIO pins.

ii  python
-html5lib                       0.999-3                                   all          HTML parser/tokenizer based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification (Python 2)

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-html5lib-whl                   0.999-3                                   all          HTML parser/tokenizer based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification

ii  python
-minimal                        2.7.9-1                                   armhf        minimal subset of the Python language (default version)

ii  python
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ii  python
-pifacedigitalio                3.1.0-1                                   all          The PiFace Digital I/O module.

ii  python
-pip                            1.5.6-5                                   all          alternative Python package installer

ii  python
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ii  python
-pkg-resources                  5.5.1-1                                   all          Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources

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-requests                       2.4.3-6                                   all          elegant and simple HTTP library for Python2, built for human beings

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-requests-whl                   2.4.3-6                                   all          elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings

ii  python
-rpi.gpio                       0.6.1-1                                   armhf        Python GPIO module for Raspberry Pi

ii  python
-serial                         2.6-1.1                                   all          pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port

ii  python
-setuptools                     5.5.1-1                                   all          Python Distutils Enhancements

ii  python
-setuptools-whl                 5.5.1-1                                   all          Python Distutils Enhancements (wheel package)

ii  python
-six                            1.8.0-1                                   all          Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (Python 2 interface)

ii  python
-six-whl                        1.8.0-1                                   all          Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (universal wheel)

ii  python
-spidev                         2.0~git20150907                           armhf        Python bindings for Linux SPI access through spidev (Python 2)

rc  python
-support                        1.0.15                                    all          automated rebuilding support for Python modules

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-talloc                         2.1.1-2                                   armhf        hierarchical pool based memory allocator - Python bindings

ii  python
-tk                             2.7.8-2                                   armhf        Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python

ii  python
-urllib3                        1.9.1-3                                   all          HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling for Python

ii  python
-urllib3-whl                    1.9.1-3                                   all          HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling

ii  python
-virtualenv                     1.11.6+ds-1                               all          Python virtual environment creator

ii  python
-wheel                          0.24.0-1                                  all          built-package format for Python

ii  python2
.7                             2.7.9-2                                   armhf        Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)

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.7-dev                         2.7.9-2                                   armhf        Header files and a static library for Python (v2.7)

ii  python2
.7-minimal                     2.7.9-2                                   armhf        Minimal subset of the Python language (version 2.7)

ii  python3                              
3.4.2-2                                   armhf        interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)

ii  python3
-apt                           0.9.3.12                                  armhf        Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg

ii  python3
-chardet                       2.3.0-1                                   all          universal character encoding detector for Python3

ii  python3
-colorama                      0.3.2-1                                   all          Cross-platform colored terminal text in Python - Python 3.x

ii  python3
-debian                        0.1.27                                    all          Python 3 modules to work with Debian-related data formats

ii  python3
-dev                           3.4.2-2                                   armhf        header files and a static library for Python (default)

ii  python3
-distlib                       0.1.9-1                                   all          low-level components of python distutils2/packaging

ii  python3
-gpiozero                      1.1.0                                     all          Simple API for controlling devices attached to the GPIO pins.

ii  python3
-html5lib                      0.999-3                                   all          HTML parser/tokenizer based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification (Python 3)

ii  python3
-minimal                       3.4.2-2                                   armhf        minimal subset of the Python language (default python3 version)

ii  python3
-numpy                         1:1.8.2-2                                 armhf        Fast array facility to the Python 3 language

ii  python3
-pgzero                        1.1-1                                     armhf        Zero-boilerplate games programming framework based on Pygame (Python 3)

ii  python3
-picamera                      1.10-1                                    armhf        Pure Python interface to the Raspberry Pi's camera module.

ii  python3-pifacecommon                  4.2.1-1                                   all          The PiFace common functions module.

ii  python3-pifacedigital-scratch-handler 2.0.5-1                                   all          The PiFace Digital Scratch Handler.

ii  python3-pifacedigitalio               3.1.0-1                                   all          The PiFace Digital I/O module.

ii  python3-pip                           1.5.6-5                                   all          alternative Python package installer - Python 3 version of the package

ii  python3-pkg-resources                 5.5.1-1                                   all          Package Discovery and Resource Access using pkg_resources

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ii  python3-requests                      2.4.3-6                                   all          elegant and simple HTTP library for Python3, built for human beings

ii  python3-rpi.gpio                      0.6.1-1                                   armhf        Python 3 GPIO module for Raspberry Pi

ii  python3-serial                        2.6-1.1                                   all          pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port

ii  python3-setuptools                    5.5.1-1                                   all          Python3 Distutils Enhancements

ii  python3-six                           1.8.0-1                                   all          Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (Python 3 interface)

ii  python3-spidev                        2.0~git20150907                           armhf        Python bindings for Linux SPI access through spidev (Python 3)

ii  python3-tk                            3.4.2-1                                   armhf        Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python 3.x

ii  python3-urllib3                       1.9.1-3                                   all          HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling for Python3

ii  python3-virtualenv                    1.11.6+ds-1                               all          Python virtual environment creator

ii  python3-wheel                         0.24.0-1                                  all          built-package format for Python

ii  python3.4                             3.4.2-1                                   armhf        Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.4)

ii  python3.4-dev                         3.4.2-1                                   armhf        Header files and a static library for Python (v3.4)

ii  python3.4-minimal                     3.4.2-1                                   armhf        Minimal subset of the Python language (version 3.4)


Johannes Kastl

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Apr 12, 2016, 2:21:36 PM4/12/16
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On 12.04.16 18:30 Jack Minardi wrote:
> pi@raspberry:~ $ which python
>
> /usr/bin/python

So it is installed. But maybe the PATH does not get set right?

Ansible uses a non-interactive shell, so the PATH could vary between
your user login via ssh and ansible's login.

Look in the archives, there has been a discussion of PATH recently.

Johannes


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