Hi Florian,
please update to the current version of ansible, where this bug is
fixed. This is a duplicate of #970422.
Regards,
Lee
On 15/05/2021 11:06, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Package: ansible
> Version: 2.9.16+dfsg-1.1
> Severity: important
>
>
> Hi,
> this ansible version ships with a broken symlink in
> /usr/bin/ansible-connection pointing to:
>
> flo@p5:/usr/bin$ ls -la ansible-connection
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Jan 6 11:56 ansible-connection ->
> ../lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
>
> which does not exist. This connection for example
> routeros targets fails with:
>
> task path: /home/flo/projects/customer/routeros/playbook.yml:2
> fatal: [ros1]: FAILED! => {
> "msg": "Unable to find location of 'ansible-connection'. Please set or
> check the value of ANSIBLE_CONNECTION_PATH"
> }
>
>
> I fixed it with:
>
> flo@p5:/usr/bin$ sudo rm ansible-connection
> flo@p5:/usr/bin$ sudo ln -s
> ../lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
> ansible-connection
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
> APT prefers testing-security
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages ansible depends on:
> ii openssh-client 1:8.4p1-5
> ii python3 3.9.2-3
> ii python3-cryptography 3.3.2-1
> ii python3-distutils 3.9.2-1
> ii python3-dnspython 2.0.0-1
> ii python3-httplib2 0.18.1-3
> ii python3-jinja2 2.11.3-1
> ii python3-netaddr 0.7.19-5
> ii python3-paramiko 2.7.2-1
> ii python3-yaml 5.3.1-3+b1
>
> Versions of packages ansible recommends:
> ii python3-argcomplete 1.8.1-1.5
> ii python3-jmespath 0.10.0-1
> ii python3-kerberos 1.1.14-3.1+b3
> ii python3-libcloud 3.2.0-2
> ii python3-selinux 3.1-3
> ii python3-winrm 0.3.0-2
> ii python3-xmltodict 0.12.0-2
>
> Versions of packages ansible suggests:
> pn cowsay <none>
> pn sshpass <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
