Running the playbook with
$ ansible-playbook test-playbook.yml
Getting error response
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: cannot pickle 'module' object
Also have tried shell: "echo text", same error.
Ansible version 2.9, Python 3.8, running on Macos.
test-playbook.yml:
---
- name: run on localhost
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
connection: local
tasks:
- name: some name
debug:
msg: "some text"
...
Full output:
$ ansible-playbook test-playbook.yml
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does
not match 'all'
PLAY [run on localhost] *************************************************************************************
TASK [some name] ********************************************************************************************
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: cannot pickle 'module' object
to see the full traceback, use -vvv
Verbose output is not helpful:
$ ansible-playbook test-playbook.yml -vvv
ansible-playbook 2.9.0
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/Users/jprusakova/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/ansible-playbook
python version = 3.8.0 (v3.8.0:fa919fdf25, Oct 14 2019, 10:23:27) [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]
No config file found; using defaults
host_list declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
script declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
yaml declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
ini declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
toml declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does
not match 'all'
PLAYBOOK: test-playbook.yml *********************************************************************************
1 plays in test-playbook.yml
PLAY [run on localhost] *************************************************************************************
META: ran handlers
TASK [some name] ********************************************************************************************
task path: /Users/jprusakova/ViaControl/temp-ansible/test-playbook.yml:9
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: cannot pickle 'module' object
the full traceback was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/ansible-playbook", line 123, in <module>
exit_code = cli.run()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 127, in run
results = pbex.run()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py", line 169, in run
result = self._tqm.run(play=play)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py", line 240, in run
play_return = strategy.run(iterator, play_context)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py", line 310, in run
self._queue_task(host, task, task_vars, play_context)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py", line 343, in _queue_task
worker_prc.start()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/executor/process/worker.py", line 96, in start
return super(WorkerProcess, self).start()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/process.py", line 121, in start
self._popen = self._Popen(self)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 224, in _Popen
return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 283, in _Popen
return Popen(process_obj)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 32, in __init__
super().__init__(process_obj)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py", line 19, in __init__
self._launch(process_obj)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 47, in _launch
reduction.dump(process_obj, fp)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 60, in dump
ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
TypeError: cannot pickle 'module' object
Ansible version
$ ansible --version
ansible 2.9.0
config file = None
configured module search path = [...]
ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.0 (v3.8.0:fa919fdf25, Oct 14 2019, 10:23:27) [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]