ansible 2.10.6 - No python interpreters found

[reini-1]

Hi!

I wanted to move from ansible 2.9.6 (Ubuntu 20.4) to a more current 20.10.6 ansible version using pyenv and ansible installed with pip but I failed with your module:

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/ansible/openwrt-facts.yml:11
fatal: [openwrt.lan]: FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {},
    "changed": false,
    "failed_modules": {
        "ansible.legacy.setup": {
            "ansible_facts": {
                "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
            },
            "failed": true,
            "module_stderr": "Shared connection to openwrt.lan closed.\r\n",
            "module_stdout": "/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: not found\r\n",
            "msg": "The module failed to execute correctly, you probably need to set the interpreter.\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
            "rc": 127,
            "warnings": [
                "No python interpreters found for host openwrt.lan (tried ['/usr/bin/python', 'python3.7', 'python3.6', 'python3.5', 'python2.7', 'python2.6', '/usr/libexec/platform-python', '/usr/bin/python3', 'python'])"
            ]
        }
    },
    "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: ansible.legacy.setup\n"
}

The playbook for testing is really simple:

- name: OpenWrt setup devices
  hosts: openwrt
  roles:
    - gekmihesg.openwrt
  # gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - debug: var=ansible_facts

When I set gather_facts to false it works but then I have no facts ...

I think the way ansible >= 2.10 runs vars plugin is the cause, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/vars.html, but I did not figure out, what to set in ansible.cfg to whitelist the vars plugin.

I tried different variants of the following:

vars_plugins_enabled = host_group_vars,gekmihesg.openwrt.monkeypatch
run_vars_plugins = start

With the debian package of ansible version 2.9.6+dfsg-1 it works without a problem.

What else do I have to do to get this awesome module running with ansible 2.10.x?

Thanks in advance.

[gekmihesg]

Are you sure you had the latest version checked out when testing this? Since 6e681f9, compatibility with Ansible >= 2.10 should be fine. Check #25 as well.

[reini-1]

I used the version from ansible galaxy but I think it is outdated there.

Last Imported/commit: 2 years ago

So I will try the github version.

[gekmihesg]

Totally forget about that. Just imported the current version there.

[jottr]

Totally forget about that. Just imported the current version there.

May I suggest the use of the appropriate github action to guard against situations like this?