Task exception at: Install Python packages

This was de message:

TASK [nickjj.docker : Install Python packages] **************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
failed: [droplet_ave] (item={u'state': u'present', u'name': u'docker'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": {"name": "docker", "state": "present"}, "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) on ave's Python /usr/bin/python. Please read module documentation and install in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"}
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
failed: [droplet_ave] (item={u'path': u'/usr/local/bin/docker-compose', u'state': u'present', u'version': u'', u'name': u'docker-compose', u'src': u'/usr/local/lib/docker/virtualenv/bin/docker-compose'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": {"name": "docker-compose", "path": "/usr/local/bin/docker-compose", "src": "/usr/local/lib/docker/virtualenv/bin/docker-compose", "state": "present", "version": ""}, "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) on ave's Python /usr/bin/python. Please read module documentation and install in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"}

I fixed it executing this at target host: sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-pkg-resources

Then Docker was successfully installed:

Docker version 19.03.12, build 48a66213fe

Some host details:

$ uname -a
Linux lhpc 5.3.0-62-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 23 11:20:52 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am not sure if this case should be handled. Thanks. 😃

[sudanking]

hi,

I fix that by adding

vars: ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3

before roles.

[nickjj]

No problem. If you get an opportunity to test it with Python 3 and it still fails feel free to re-open this.

But I do use DigitalOcean personally and I tend to manually test the role on their latest Ubuntu / Debian releases before cutting any releases. I haven’t seen this popup when using Python 3.