Hi, thanks for the advice. Since the affected hosts are physical devices, that are remotely managed, I can't simply destroy them and spin up new ones. Therefore, I would be very interested in finding (at least) the cause of this if not a solution, so we can avoid it in the future.
Do you have any ideas on how to further debug this? Kind regards, Sven Dick Visser schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. April 2024 um 13:36:06 UTC+2: > I would terminate the host and spin up a fresh one. > This means your host will be in a known clean state again. > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 12:45, Sven Feyerabend <sven.fe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have a host where Ansible used to run correctly. > > A while ago, all runs of Ansible on this host started to hang on > Gathering Facts. > > I've searched on the internet for a solution, and found some tips on how > to debug this. > > So I ran Ansible with ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 and used > > python3 AnsiballZ_setup.py explode > > to look into this further. > > Running the module with strace did not yield any useful results, so I > used the gather_subset option with !all,!min and enabled the collectors one > by one. > > Using this method for all collectors in the min set, I found three > collectors which did not terminate: env, service_mgr, ssh_pub_keys > > > > I don't know how to proceed from here. My search on the internet > suggests stale network mounts as the main reason for such behavior, but we > don't have any on the affected host. > > I tried rebooting as well as upgrading all packages but the problem > persists. > > Is there a way to debug this further? > > Simply turning the gathering of facts off is not an option, as we rely > heavily on host dependent facts in some of our roles. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > > Sven > > > > -- > > 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-proje...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/72a0a26d-efe6-4860-81a4-0be2e99d91dbn%40googlegroups.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/fd91eb13-b3c9-4e2b-aab2-ae9a7401874fn%40googlegroups.com.
