apt module has error "failed to execute setup

[Keith Mills]

I have Ansible 2.8.0 and Python 2.7.5. I tried to run the following playbook to upgrade the packages on a Debian host which has Python 2.7.3. I got the ""The following modules failed to execute: setup\n setup: MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error\n"}" in the Gathering facts part. Please advice. Thanks in advance.

name: Update and upgrade apt packages

new-buildserver.yaml:

---


# Plan
# use a staging inventory file or specify individual hosts
# copy repos
# install packages
# copy configs for installed packages
# install cpan modules
# update all the things to appropriate levels
# install mxdk


- hosts: buildservers
  remote_user: root
  roles:
   - buildservers

debian-7.yaml:

---


# 2018-07-02
# Vollmer
# Install required packages (and some perl modules) with_items using default package manager
- name: install required packages
  package:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: present
  with_items:
  - alien
  - apache2
  - autofs
  - bison
  - createrepo
  - dos2unix
  - flex
#  - g++-multilib
  - git
  - html2text
  - krb5-user
#  - libc6-dev-i386
#  - libevent-dev
  - libmng1
#  - libxml++2.6-2v5
#  - libxml++2.6-dev
#  - libxml2-dev
  - libxml++2.6-2
#  - libxml2-dev:i386
#  - lib64stdc++6:i386
  - libxml2-utils
  - lzma
  - make
#  - smbfs
  - nasm
  - ntp
  - pbuilder
  - python-lxml
  - rpm2cpio
  - xsltproc
  - zip
  - libexpat1-dev
  - libssl-dev
  - zlib1g-dev
  - cpanminus
#  - update
# The following never worked but were included in the original deployment scripts, kept here for reference
# - lib64stdc++6:i386
# - libxml2-dev:i386
# - smbfs
# It appears that Debian uses all CPAN provided modules so we do not need to install any from the package manager
- name: install required perl modules
  package:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: present
#    type: package
  with_items:
  - libanydata-perl
  - libapache-asp-perl
  - libcrypt-rc4-perl
  - libdigest-sha-perl
  - libhttp-dav-perl
  - liblog-log4perl-perl
  - libsoap-lite-perl
  - libterm-shell-perl
  - libxml-dom-perl
  - libxml-libxml-perl
  - libxml-sax-perl
  - libxml-xpath-perl


...

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

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************

 

[WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host abldeb7ex6405: No JSON object could be decoded

fatal: [abldeb7ex6405]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: setup\n  setup: MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error\n"}
ok: [deb7ex6404]
ok: [deb7ex6403]
ok: [deb7ex6402]
ok: [deb7ex6401]

Ansible Version:

ansible 2.8.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/jamekeit/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, May 31 2018, 09:41:32) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)]

OS Environment:

"Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"

Ansible Controller:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.5 (Maipo)"

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Output with the list of upgraded packages.

ACTUAL RESULTS:

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

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************

 

[WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host abldeb7ex6405: No JSON object could be decoded

fatal: [abldeb7ex6405]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: setup\n  setup: MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error\n"}
ok: [deb7ex6404]
ok: [deb7ex6403]
ok: [deb7ex6402]
ok: [deb7ex6401]

[Keith Mills]

Here is the -vvv

ansible-playbook -i buildservers-agd new-buildserver.yaml --check --limit abldeb7ex6405 -vvv

ansible-playbook 2.8.0

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/jamekeit/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, May 31 2018, 09:41:32) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)]
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
host_list declined parsing /home/jamekeit/ds9/buildservers-agd as it did not pass it's verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/jamekeit/ds9/buildservers-agd as it did not pass it's verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /home/jamekeit/ds9/buildservers-agd as it did not pass it's verify_file() method
Parsed /home/jamekeit/ds9/buildservers-agd inventory source with ini plugin
statically imported: /home/jamekeit/ds9/roles/buildservers/tasks/regular-packages.yaml
statically imported: /home/jamekeit/ds9/roles/buildservers/tasks/git.yaml


PLAYBOOK: new-buildserver.yaml *******************************************************************************************************************************************
1 plays in new-buildserver.yaml

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


TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************

task path: /home/jamekeit/ds9/new-buildserver.yaml:13
<abldeb7ex6405> Attempting python interpreter discovery
<abldeb7ex6405> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<abldeb7ex6405> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'IdentityFile="/etc/ansible/id_rsa"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jamekeit/.ansible/cp/67246c2bc6 abldeb7ex6405 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo PLATFORM; uname; echo FOUND; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/usr/bin/python'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python3.7'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python3.6'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python3.5'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python2.7'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python2.6'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/usr/libexec/platform-python'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/usr/bin/python3'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; command -v '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'python'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'; echo ENDFOUND && sleep 0'"'"''
<abldeb7ex6405> (0, 'PLATFORM\nLinux\nFOUND\n/usr/bin/python\n/usr/bin/python2.7\n/usr/bin/python2.6\n/usr/bin/python\nENDFOUND\n', '')
<abldeb7ex6405> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<abldeb7ex6405> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'IdentityFile="/etc/ansible/id_rsa"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jamekeit/.ansible/cp/67246c2bc6 abldeb7ex6405 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python && sleep 0'"'"''
<abldeb7ex6405> (1, '', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>\nImportError: No module named json\n')
<abldeb7ex6405> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>
ImportError: No module named json

 [WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host abldeb7ex6405: No JSON object could be decoded

<abldeb7ex6405> Interpreter discovery remote stderr:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>
ImportError: No module named json


Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/setup.py
Pipelining is enabled.
<abldeb7ex6405> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<abldeb7ex6405> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'IdentityFile="/etc/ansible/id_rsa"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/jamekeit/.ansible/cp/67246c2bc6 abldeb7ex6405 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python && sleep 0'"'"''
<abldeb7ex6405> (1, '', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File "<stdin>", line 114, in <module>\n  File "<stdin>", line 21, in _ansiballz_main\nImportError: No module named zipfile\n')
<abldeb7ex6405> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 114, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 21, in _ansiballz_main
ImportError: No module named zipfile

fatal: [abldeb7ex6405]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {},
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: setup\n  setup: MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error\n"
}

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
abldeb7ex6405              : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 31.07.2019 21:27, Keith Mills wrote:
> ControlPath=/home/jamekeit/.ansible/cp/67246c2bc6 abldeb7ex6405 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python
> && sleep 0'"'"''
> <abldeb7ex6405> (1, '', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n File
> "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>\nImportError: No module named json\n')
> <abldeb7ex6405> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Traceback (most
> recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named json
> [WARNING]: Unhandled error in Python interpreter discovery for host
> abldeb7ex6405: No JSON object could be decoded
>
>
> <abldeb7ex6405> Interpreter discovery remote stderr:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 10, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named json

Your installation is seriously broken, json module is included in Python 2.6 and newer
https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Keith Mills]

Is there a way to fix this?

Keith James

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