macOS 11 & 12: connections fail trying to execv non-existent path

• Which version of Ansible are you running:

  ansible 2.10.4
  config file = /Users/dwt/Code/Projekte/sntl/provisioning/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/dwt/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Users/dwt/.virtualenvs/sntl-provisioning/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /Users/dwt/.virtualenvs/sntl-provisioning/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.1 (default, Jan  4 2021, 20:49:26) [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.28)]
  

• Is your version of Ansible patched in any way? no

• Are you running with any custom modules, or module_utils loaded? yes, self written modules to extract local facts

• Have you tried the latest master version from Git? yes

• Mention your host and target OS and versions: host: macos 11.1, target: cents 7.9

• Mention your host and target Python versions host: 2.7 and 3.9 (both tested)

• If reporting a crash or hang in Ansible, please rerun with -vvv and include 200 lines of output around the point of the error, along with a full copy of any traceback or error text in the log: ansible.log

• If reporting any kind of problem with Ansible, please include the Ansible version along with output of “ansible-config dump --only-changed”.

  ANSIBLE_PIPELINING(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = True
  ANSIBLE_SSH_CONTROL_PATH(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = %(directory)s/%%C
  CACHE_PLUGIN(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = jsonfile
  CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ./.fact_cache/
  CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 86400
  DEFAULT_FORKS(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 500
  DEFAULT_GATHERING(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
  DEFAULT_HASH_BEHAVIOUR(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = merge
  DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/path/to/ansible/inventory']
  DEFAULT_MANAGED_STR(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = This file is managed by Ansible. Don't make changes here, they will be overwritten.
  DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/path/to/ansible/roles', '/path/to/ansible/vendor/icinga2-ansible', '/path/to/ansible/vendor/ansible-icinga-monitoring', '/path/to/ansible/vendor/ansible-elasticsearch']
  DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = yaml
  DEFAULT_STRATEGY(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = mitogen_linear
  DEFAULT_STRATEGY_PLUGIN_PATH(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/path/to/ansible/vendor/mitogen/ansible_mitogen/plugins/strategy']
  DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = /path/to/ansible/scripts/open_the_vault.sh
  TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS(/path/to/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ignore
  

The error I’m seeing is that a synchronize action fails because it seems to try to execl() a non-existent path on my local machine. The error is contained in the above linked file, but in shortened it is this:

Python(mitogen:[e-mail]:29674): execv: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python(mitogen:[e-mail]:29674): No such file or directory

This looks a lot like some bootstrap code, but I’m not sure why it tries to connect to the local machine - or am I missing something?

[opoplawski]

Any chance that this could be fixed on the 0.2-release branch as well for those of us still on ansible 2.9? Thanks.

[moreati]

Thank you, I’ve merged the branch