Category: Ansible

Ansible 7.0 onwards requires blocking IO from stdin, stdout, and stderr

Shaken Fist CI started failing this afternoon with this message logged:

ERROR: Ansible requires blocking IO on stdin/stdout/stderr.
Non-blocking file handles detected: <stdout>

Specifically this was happening when using ansible-galaxy to install some requirements, but the check is a more generic check than that was implemented by this ansible pull request, which appears to have been released with ansible-core 2.14 on November 8. That sat around until today, when ansible 7.0.0 was released and broke CI for me.

To be completely honest I’m not sure what’s happening here — somewhere in GitHub actions calling a shell script that calls ansible-galaxy the stdout file descriptor gets set to non-blocking and everything breaks. I’m unsure exactly where because its a pain to track down.

That said, Jack came to the rescue with this gem:

ansible-galaxy install andrewrothstein.etcd-cluster | cat -

Which unblocks me. It will be interesting to see if other people encounter problems with this change.

postgres_log_dir error while installing Pulp 3.20

I’m new to pulp and am installing based on the Ansible roles as documented at Getting started – Pulp Installer. During the install, I get this error:

TASK [geerlingguy.postgresql : Define postgresql_log_dir.] ************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option 
with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no 
attribute 'log_directory'\n\nThe error appears to be in 
'/root/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.postgresql/tasks/variables.yml': 
line 58, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the 
exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- 
name: Define postgresql_log_dir.\n ^ here\n"}

This seems to be that a newer version of geerlingguy.postgresql has been released (version 3.4) which requires some changes to the Pulp Ansible installer. Those changes have been made in this pull request, which has been merged but not yet released. For others blocked on this, you can instead lock the version of geerlingguy.postgresql to something older, which will then allow the install to work:

ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.postgresql,3.3.1
ansible-galaxy collection install pulp.pulp_installer