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 <[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 > > > > -- > > 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 [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/fd91eb13-b3c9-4e2b-aab2-ae9a7401874fn%40googlegroups.com.
