Trying to ping a windows machine, and I'm running into an ambiguous error from one of the python modules. Any suggestion on how to fix this?
------------------ # ansible windows -i inventory -vvvv -m win_ping ansible 2.6.2 config file = /home/ec2-user/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [u'/usr/share/my_modules'] ansible python module location = /home/ec2-user/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible executable location = /home/ec2-user/venv/bin/ansible python version = 2.7.14 (default, May 2 2018, 18:31:34) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] Using /home/ec2-user/ansible.cfg as config file setting up inventory plugins Parsed /home/ec2-user/inventory inventory source with yaml plugin Loading callback plugin minimal of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/ec2-user/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/minimal.pyc META: ran handlers Using module file /home/ec2-user/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_ping.ps1 <10.206.46.246> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: lanadmin on PORT 5985 TO 10.206.46.246 checking if winrm_host 10.206.46.246 is an IPv6 address <10.206.46.246> WINRM CONNECT: transport=ntlm endpoint=http://10.206.46.246:5985/wsman <10.206.46.246> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: Parse() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ec2-user/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", line 386, in _winrm_connect self.shell_id = protocol.open_shell(codepage=65001) # UTF-8 File "/home/ec2-user/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 161, in open_shell root = ET.fromstring(res) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1311, in XML parser.feed(text) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1657, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, 0) TypeError: Parse() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None windows | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "ntlm: Parse() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None", "unreachable": true } ---------------------- # Inventory settings ansible_host: 10.206.46.246 ansible_user: lanadmin ansible_password: xxxxxx ansible_port: 5985 ansible_connection: winrm ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore Attempts at a fix 1. I've tried changing the authentication type, but it just shows the same error message with that authentication type prepended. 2. I've ran the ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 script on my windows machine 3. I've tested the windows machine according to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/user_guide/windows_setup.html#common-winrm-issues -- 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/376a58de-64a9-4f38-96f1-09de04539358%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
