ansible provisioning doesn't work in vagrant on mac

[chrisjohnson00]

After cloning the project to fix an issue I reported, I attempted to bring up the virtual machine via vagrant. After executing a vagrant up I get the following error from the ansible provisioning:

==> default: Running provisioner: ansible...
default: Running ansible-playbook...

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "rc": 0}

I use ansible provisioning on other projects without any issue, so something's missing here for me.

I'm running on OSX (10.11.6), Python 2.7.10, VirtualBox 5.0.30, and vagrant 1.9.1

[siad007]

Strange I cannot reproduce this problem on my environment.
Maybe this stackoverflow post is related?
It would be very helpful if you could try this code for your playbook.yml and report back the result:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  pre_tasks:
    - name: 'install python2'
      raw: sudo apt-get -y install python-simplejson
  roles:
    - { role: phing.vagrant, tags: [vagrant] }
    - { role: phing.environment, tags: [vagrant] }
    - { role: phing.php, tags: [vagrant] }

[chrisjohnson00]

@siad007 - Can you try destroying the phing vagrant environment and then execute a vagrant up? Does that succeed for you?
There's a different message now, but looks like same root problem "shared connection to 127.0.0.1 closed

==> default: Running provisioner: ansible...
    default: Running ansible-playbook...

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

TASK [phing.vagrant : Set up the MOTD] *****************************************
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Failed to get information on remote file (/etc/motd): Shared connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.\r\n"}
        to retry, use: --limit @/Users/cjohnson/PhpstormProjects/phing/ansible/playbook.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
default                    : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

Ansible failed to complete successfully. Any error output should be
visible above. Please fix these errors and try again.

[chrisjohnson00]

also of note... here's my version of ansible

FW-529:phing cjohnson$ ansible --version
ansible 2.3.0.0
  config file = 
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
  python version = 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)]

[chrisjohnson00]

running the playbook manually works, having vagrant do it does not.

FW-529:phing cjohnson$ ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/inventory -u vagrant --ask-pass --sudo
SSH password: 

PLAY [all] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [install python2] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.vagrant : Set up the MOTD] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.vagrant : Adding existing user 'vagrant' to groups www-data,users] ******************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.vagrant : Update our apt cache] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.vagrant : Install Vim] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2] => (item=[u'vim'])

TASK [phing.vagrant : Have SSH user go to /vagrant by default] **********************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.environment : Install required packages] ********************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2] => (item=[u'curl', u'git', u'subversion', u'mercurial', u'python-pip'])

TASK [phing.environment : install python-docutil] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.php : Install PHP] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.php : Install PHP Modules] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2] => (item=[u'php-bz2', u'php-xdebug', u'php-xsl', u'php-zip'])

TASK [phing.php : Install sqlite extension] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2] => (item=[u'php7.0-sqlite3', u'php7.0-mbstring', u'sqlite3', u'libsqlite3-dev'])

TASK [phing.php : Configure Phar extension.] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.255.2]

TASK [phing.php : Install composer] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
 [WARNING]: Consider using get_url or uri module rather than running curl

changed: [192.168.255.2]

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
192.168.255.2              : ok=13   changed=12   unreachable=0    failed=0   

So the problem lies in Vagrantfile i think...

[aboullaite]

I've managed to get this working by adding this to my Vagrantfile:

  ansible.extra_vars = {
    ansible_python_interpreter: "/usr/bin/python3",
   }

[akellehe]

Thanks for documenting, @aboullaite, @chrisjohnson00, and @siad007 👏

[mrook]

Is that a Mac-specific thing that needs to be added to the Vagrantfile?

[siad007]

On windows i cannot reproduce this behaviour but i think the solution

I've managed to get this working by adding this to my Vagrantfile:

ansible.extra_vars = {
ansible_python_interpreter: "/usr/bin/python3",
}

seems to work for a few people

[mrook]

@siad007 understood, can you add that?

[akellehe]

If you keep having this trouble let me know, I found some workarounds.

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[bentcoder]

In my case the solutions was:

all:
  children:
    servers:
      hosts:
        linux1:
          ansible_host: 192.168.99.31
          ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3