Hi there Never had this error before, and also Google could not help me so far.
When I create a new virtualenv and install pip modules, I get the mentioned error when I try to manage Windows hosts with Ansible. I'm on debian 8.9. Steps to reproduce: cd ~ virtualenv venv_ansible . venv_ansible/bin/activate (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade pip (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade setuptools (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade xmltodict (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade pywinrm (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade requests_kerberos (venv_ansible): pip install --upgrade pycrypto (venv_ansible): pip install ansible (venv_ansible): pip list ansible (2.4.3.0) asn1crypto (0.24.0) bcrypt (3.1.4) certifi (2018.1.18) cffi (1.11.5) chardet (3.0.4) cryptography (2.1.4) enum34 (1.1.6) idna (2.6) ipaddress (1.0.19) Jinja2 (2.10) MarkupSafe (1.0) ntlm-auth (1.0.6) paramiko (2.4.0) pip (9.0.1) pyasn1 (0.4.2) pycparser (2.18) pycrypto (2.6.1) pykerberos (1.2.1) PyNaCl (1.2.1) pywinrm (0.3.0) PyYAML (3.12) requests (2.18.4) requests-kerberos (0.12.0) requests-ntlm (1.1.0) setuptools (38.5.1) six (1.11.0) urllib3 (1.22) xmltodict (0.11.0) (venv_ansible): vi hosts -------------------------------------------- [windows] server1.domain.local [all:vars] ansible_port=5985 ansible_user=userid@DOMAIN.LOCAL ansible_connection=winrm ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos ansible_winrm_operation_timeout_sec=60 ansible_winrm_read_timeout_sec=70 -------------------------------------------- (venv_ansible): kinit userid@DOMAIN.LOCAL (venv_ansible): ansible -m win_ping -i hosts windows -vvvvv ansible 2.4.3.0 config file = None configured module search path = [u'/home/userid/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /home/userid/venv_ansible/local/lib/ python2.7/site-packages/ansible executable location = /home/userid/venv_ansible/bin/ansible python version = 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31) [GCC 4.9.2] No config file found; using defaults setting up inventory plugins Parsed /home/userid/hosts inventory source with ini plugin Loading callback plugin minimal of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/userid/ venv_ansible/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/ minimal.pyc META: ran handlers Using module file /home/userid/venv_ansible/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_ping.ps1 <server1.DOMAIN.LOCAL> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: userid@DOMAIN.LOCAL on PORT 5985 TO server1.domain.local checking if winrm_host server1.domain.local is an IPv6 address <server1.DOMAIN.LOCAL> WINRM CONNECT: transport=kerberos endpoint=http: //server1.domain.local:5985/wsman <server1.DOMAIN.LOCAL> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: Bad HTTP response returned from server. Code 400 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/userid/venv_ansible/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py" , line 240, in _winrm_connect self.shell_id = protocol.open_shell(codepage=65001) # UTF-8 File "/home/userid/venv_ansible/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py" , line 157, in open_shell res = self.send_message(xmltodict.unparse(req)) File "/home/userid/venv_ansible/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py" , line 242, in send_message raise ex WinRMTransportError: Bad HTTP response returned from server. Code 400 server1.domain.local | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "kerberos: Bad HTTP response returned from server. Code 400", "unreachable": true } On the same machine, I have an older virtualenv which is working fine, the only difference are some module versions: (venv_ansible_ok): pip list ansible (2.4.3.0) asn1crypto (0.24.0) bcrypt (3.1.4) certifi (2017.4.17) cffi (1.11.4) chardet (3.0.4) cryptography (2.1.4) enum34 (1.1.6) idna (2.6) ipaddress (1.0.19) Jinja2 (2.10) MarkupSafe (1.0) ntlm-auth (1.0.4) ordereddict (1.1) paramiko (2.4.0) pip (9.0.1) pyasn1 (0.4.2) pycparser (2.18) pycrypto (2.6.1) pykerberos (1.1.14) PyNaCl (1.2.1) pywinrm (0.2.2) PyYAML (3.12) requests (2.18.1) requests-kerberos (0.11.0) requests-ntlm (1.0.0) setuptools (38.5.1) six (1.11.0) urllib3 (1.21.1) xmltodict (0.11.0) I think it's just a bug (once again...) in a module, but I have no clue in which module or why. So I even cannot raise an issue at the moment. Any idea? Thank you and regards jn -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a4dae11b-d68c-4167-8af5-896c34d25a48%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.