ansible looking for templates in previous role

[Kathy L]

Good morning.  I have two roles in a multi-role playbook, for yum, then chrony. The yum module works fine, but the chrony playbook fails on copying a template.  The odd thing is, the error I get indicates ansible is looking in the yum module for chrony's template.  here is the specific error message;

Could not find or access chrony.conf.j2

Searched in:
     /work/roles/yum/templates/chrony.conf.j2

     /work/roles/yum/chrony.conf.j2

    /work/roles/yum/tasks/chrony.conf.j2

   /work/templates/etc.chrony.conf.j2

Why is it searching in the yum role for a chrony template?  The template is in /work/roles/chrony/templates/chrony.conf.j2. 

[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

Please provide the code that is executing the roles.

Walter
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[Todd Lewis]

Hi Kathy,

Files, templates, plugins, etc. that live in various local roles aren't available to your playbook tasks until those roles are accessed, for example through the roles: playbook keyword or import_role or include_role.

From your description, it appears that you've accessed your yum role but not your chrony role at the point you tried to use your etc.chrony.conf.j2 template.
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[Kathy L]

Walter - Unfortunately I can't provide the code as this is on a client's off-line network.  Todd, I'll look again at when I use the chrony tasks. 

[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

You would only call the chrony role. Something like this.

- include_role:

    name: yum_role.yaml

- include_role:

    name: chrony_role.yaml

The role would use the template module which should find the template in the chrony role's templates folder.

Walter
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[Brian Coca]

You can just post a simple reproducer, from what you posted I can only
vaguely guess that you are using the 2nd role tasks as tasks and not
as a role.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 3:31 PM Kathy L <lyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Walter - Unfortunately I can't provide the code as this is on a client's off-line network. Todd, I'll look again at when I use the chrony tasks.
>

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Brian Coca

[Kathy L]

What I did today was to remove mitogen and run it with "normal" ssh and it did not have that problem.  That makes it a mitogen problem I think. I'll find a bug report with them. I should have thought of this earlier.  Thanks for all the help.

[Vladimir Botka]

> On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 11:15:45 AM UTC-4 Brian Coca wrote:
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> > You can just post a simple reproducer, from what you posted I can only
> > vaguely guess that you are using the 2nd role tasks as tasks and not
> > as a role.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
Kathy L <lyon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What I did today was to remove mitogen and run it with "normal" ssh and it
> did not have that problem. That makes it a mitogen problem I think. I'll
> find a bug report with them.

Post a simple reproducer here before you file the issue. Included or
depending role might be causing the problem. This might be an issue
with Ansible. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/76994183/6482561


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[Terry Bowling]

Hello Kathy,

I cannot answer the template question, but for configuring Chrony, have you considered using the RHEL System Roles.timesync role (or it's upstream project linux-system-roles)?

Here is a bunch of really good info on how it helps to abstract and simply RHEL/linux management.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3050101
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-system-roles

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[Brian Coca]

This is how resolution should work in Ansible
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbook_pathing.html#resolving-local-relative-paths,
if this is not what you are seeing, then file a bug with a simple
reproducer w/o mitogen. We do not support mitogen patch as it does
alter some base functionality in backwards incompatible ways, any
issues with mitogen can be address at it's own issue site.



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