cleanmgr is probably waiting for window to display progress, but winrm has no window available so that's probably why it hangs
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28852786/automate-process-of-disk-cleanup-cleanmgr-exe-without-user-intervention You might be able to use something like this, but I haven't tried it myself Start-Process -FilePath CleanMgr.exe -ArgumentList '/sagerun:1' -WindowStyle Hidden -Wait or perhaps Start-Process -FilePath CleanMgr.exe -ArgumentList '/sagerun:1' -NoNewWindow -Wait On Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 1:43:24 PM UTC+1, SurferL wrote: > > Using Ansible 2.6.2, I've set `cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:3` to everything > possible manually on the Windows 10 machine. > > In my playbook I have the following task: > > - name: windows | disk cleanup > win_shell: "cmd.exe /c cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:3" > args: > chdir: "C:\\Windows\\system32" > > However it hangs on this task it seems, and I can't seem to figure out > why, or what I could be debugging. > > Running the command manually on the machine locally works fine. Also, the > command works fine for Windows 7 machine, so I'm not sure this could be a > configuration issue on the Windows 10 machine? > > Ansible debug (showing the ping task just before it hangs): > > TASK [cleanup : windows | verify connection] > *********************************** > task path: > /Users/ansible/builds/0/clean_base_vms/ansible/roles/cleanup/tasks/windows.yml:3 > ok: [win10_base] => { > "changed": false, > "ping": "pong" > } > Using module file > /Users/ansible/clean_base_vms/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_shell.ps1 > <ip-address> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible on PORT 5985 TO > <ip-address> > checking if winrm_host <ip-address> is an IPv6 address > <ip-address> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext > endpoint=http://<ip-address>:5985/wsman > <ip-address> WINRM OPEN SHELL: <shell-thing> > EXEC (via pipeline wrapper) > <ip-address> WINRM EXEC 'PowerShell' ['-NoProfile', '-NonInteractive', > '-ExecutionPolicy', 'Unrestricted', '-'] > > > I've left this task running for 5 hours before it fails... > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance :) > -- 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/4d3dbfe5-4312-4a6a-b894-2f3c8bee7bc4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
