Using ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 as an environment variable when running ansible with -vvvv is usually what I recommend.
After running ansible, log into the server and run the script from the task that is hanging per the output of -vvvv You can usually see what is going on then. On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Jakub Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I run a command that asks for user input, Ansible 1.4.4 hangs without > any indication of what is going on. When I interrupt it with Ctrl-C, it > prints a stacktrace that also contains noindication of the root cause. > > I have been running "*command: /usr/bin/unzip /my-archive.zip*". I was > only able to discover the problem - unzip asking whether it should > overwrite an existing file - after killing the unzip command, at which > point Ansible printed its stderr that contained the prompt from unzip. > > This was quite hard to detect, is there something that Ansible could do to > help users troubleshoot such cases? > > I guess that it even a simple thing could be of a great help, such as > having an interrupt handler in the command module and, upon interrupt, > printing something like: > > "It looks like you have killed this command. If it seemed to have > hanged, check that it wasn't asking for user input. You may also want to > set command execution timeout by doing .... and running Ansible with -vvvv > to troubleshoot it. Always make sure the command is non-interactive, f.ex. > by setting appropriate command line options, if it has them." > > If it could actually also print stderr and perhaps (tail of?) stdout of > the command, it would be terrific. > > Thank you! > > Best regards, Jakub Holy, Puppet renegade and Ansible newbie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ansible-project%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Matt Martz [email protected] http://sivel.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
