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 <[email protected]> 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
>
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