Have you run the playbook in verbose mode to get more detail? Maybe there's a mis-spelling in the inventory hostname you used or something in the inventory.
The only other idea I have is to copy/paste the msg section that starts with "Could" into your search engine of choice and see what comes up there. --John On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 7:07 AM Ashok Reddy <ashokrd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Team, > > whatever i've mentioned the inventory hostname just ref i.e not the actual > one. > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 4:18 PM Dick Visser <dnmvis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 12:23, Ashok Reddy <ashokrd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> --- >>> >>> - hosts: all >>> >>> become: true >>> >>> become_method: sudo >>> >>> gather_facts: true >>> >>> tasks: >>> >>> - name: block >>> >>> block: >>> >>> - name: rsync >>> >>> command: "cat /proc/meminfo" >>> >>> rescue: >>> >>> - debug: >>> >>> msg: proceed to install >>> >>> - name: install rsync >>> >>> dnf: >>> >>> name: rsync >>> >>> state: present >>> >>> delegate_to: localhost >>> >>> - name: sync >>> >>> ansible.posix.synchronize: >>> >>> src: /root >>> >>> dest: /root >>> >>> delegate_to: inventory hostname >>> >>> >>> Error: >>> >>> >>> FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not determine controller >>> hostname for rsync to send to"} >>> >> >> >> The listeral string "inventory hostname" is not a valid hostname. Fix >> that. >> Also, "become_method: sudo" and "gather_facts: true" are both the same as >> the defaults, so you can leave that out. >> >> -- >> 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/CAF8BbLa4-JSaG5%2BB2yQ0%2BRm_S-t4JgayH6TJKfxS97%2Bz0Kwinw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLa4-JSaG5%2BB2yQ0%2BRm_S-t4JgayH6TJKfxS97%2Bz0Kwinw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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/CAKRLcHg2Sbjz7Ysgkvb5NsFjn9xdm%3DwmVzn4ja4iSTz9BKUpTQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAKRLcHg2Sbjz7Ysgkvb5NsFjn9xdm%3DwmVzn4ja4iSTz9BKUpTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAPAjob8hCdxBzPhP2CwhbEg6bq%3D9m-Gic4Cor2X%2BL50dHXdfyw%40mail.gmail.com.