On 2025-08-01 12:14 +02, Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> wrote:
> Le Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 09:46:05AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) a écrit :
>> > So it fails on the task,
>> > - name: nginx package
>> >   ansible.builtin.package:
>> 
>> ansible.builtin.package is just broken.  I fought with it for a
>> while, then gave up and changed it to just run the pkg_add command
>> directly.  A bit brute force, but it solved the problem, and there
>> hasn't been any blowback since the change.
>
> there has to be something else, because a dummy playbook without
> inventory works, using ansible 11.8 and ansible-core 2.19:

no kidding.

From my first mail:

| Ansible is pretty far into the playbook at this point, running for a few
| minutes. I'm managing all my infra using ansible. Different hosts hang
| at different points in the playbook (because they do different things),
| But the playbook always stops at the same point for a particular host.

-- 
In my defence, I have been left unsupervised.