Your quoting is all wrong. You are passing in one long string.
Use this:
msg: "{{ lookup('ini', 'transient_partition_size',
section='control_environment',
file='/opt/si/ansible/conf/virtual_host.conf') }}"
On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 9:37:39 AM UTC-5 Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:
> You are using '{{' for Jinja templating for section name in the lookup
> plugin.
>
> If you are setting the section value to 'control_environment' then don't
> include the '{{' in the lookup plugin.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 7:45 PM Neha Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As mentioned in the error:
>> Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An
>> unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'ini'. Error
>> was a <class 'ConfigParser.NoSectionError'>, original message: No section:
>> u'edgy'"}
>>
>> When I have updated the section name with 'edgy' as below:
>>
>> [edgy]
>> transient_partition_size = 150G
>>
>> and used the same playbook task code
>>
>> it works for me now.. I suppose, there is somewhere in my system,
>> control_environment value has beens et to edgy, if I am not wrong. Do u
>> have any idea about this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:36:27 PM UTC+5:30 Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:
>>
>>> # cat virtual_host.conf
>>> [control_environment]
>>> transient_partition_size = 150G
>>>
>>> ---
>>> - hosts: localhost
>>> gather_facts: no
>>> tasks:
>>> - debug:
>>> msg: "{{ lookup('ini', 'transient_partition_size
>>> section=control_environment file=virtual_host.conf') }}"
>>>
>>>
>>> output -
>>> ```
>>> TASK [debug]
>>> *******************************************************************
>>> task path: /Volumes/data/src/playbooks/section.yml:5
>>> ok: [localhost] => {
>>> "msg": "150G"
>>> }
>>> ```
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 7:25 PM Neha Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Adding the full error message:
>>>>
>>>> Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: An
>>>> unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'ini'. Error
>>>> was a <class 'ConfigParser.NoSectionError'>, original message: No section:
>>>> u'edgy'"}ESC[0m
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:22:10 PM UTC+5:30 Neha Singh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Abhijeet,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have updated my config file as below:
>>>>>
>>>>> file path: /opt/si/ansible/conf/virtual_host.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> [control_environment]
>>>>> transient_partition_size = 150G
>>>>>
>>>>> and my playbook task is as below:
>>>>>
>>>>> - debug:
>>>>> msg: "{{ lookup('ini', 'transient_partition_size
>>>>> section={{control_environment}}
>>>>> file=/opt/si/ansible/conf/virtual_host.conf') }}"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Error is as below:
>>>>> Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message:
>>>>> An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'ini'.
>>>>> Error was a <class 'ConfigParser.NoSectionError'>, original message: No
>>>>> section:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure, what is the issue now..
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:00:14 PM UTC+5:30 Abhijeet Janwalkar
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>> Is there a typo in file name
>>>>>> - and _.
>>>>>> Or it's only in mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Warm regards
>>>>>> Abhijeet
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 10 Mar, 2023, 14:17 Neha Singh, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok, one more question though. I have not mentioned any file
>>>>>>> extension like .ini, .conf, .cfg. Will that work without the same as
>>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Neha
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 6:30:40 PM UTC+5:30 Abhijeet Kasurde
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Error is - File contains no section headers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You need a section in ini file that you have created.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 6:25 PM Neha Singh <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Team,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have created one file where I have specify a variable:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> path: /opt/si/ansible/conf/virtual_host
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> transient_partition_size = 200G
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And then trying to print the variable by using lookup through
>>>>>>>>> another playbook:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - debug:
>>>>>>>>> msg: "{{ lookup('ini', 'transient_partition_size
>>>>>>>>> section={{control_environment}}
>>>>>>>>> file=/opt/si/ansible/conf/virtual-host') }}
>>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Result:
>>>>>>>>> Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original
>>>>>>>>> message: An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup
>>>>>>>>> plugin
>>>>>>>>> 'ini'. Error was a <class 'ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError'>,
>>>>>>>>> original message: File contains no section headers.\nfile: <???>,
>>>>>>>>> line:
>>>>>>>>> 1\nu'transient_partition_size = 200G\\n'"}
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can you help me here..?
>>>>>>>>> Please find more info regarding version
>>>>>>>>> ansible --version
>>>>>>>>> ansible 2.9.27
>>>>>>>>> python version = 2.7.5 (default, May 27 2022, 11:27:32) [GCC 4.8.5
>>>>>>>>> 20150623 (Red Hat
>>>>>>>>> 4.8.5-44)]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>> Neha
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
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