Failed to find required executable virtualenv in paths: /home/zuul/.local/bin:/home/zuul/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

[Pooja Jadhav]

CentOS 8 Molecule jobs started failing consistently with below error logs:

2020-06-17 09:39:56.447350 | TASK [Setup bindep]
2020-06-17 09:39:58.082388 | centos-8 | ERROR
2020-06-17 09:39:58.083830 | centos-8 | {
2020-06-17 09:39:58.084100 | centos-8 | "msg": "Failed to find required executable virtualenv in paths: /home/zuul/.local/bin:/home/zuul/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
2020-06-17 09:39:58.084209 | centos-8 | }
2020-06-17 09:39:58.107880 |
2020-06-17 09:39:58.108086 | PLAY RECAP
2020-06-17 09:39:58.108246 | centos-8 | ok: 3 changed: 0 unreachable: 0 failed: 1 skipped: 0 rescued: 0 ignored: 0

Reference Links :

https://e6a07a277775a85fd383-2c7741880943732ccc10651ec71fbf9c.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/736024/1/check/tripleo-ansible-centos-8-molecule-tripleo_hosts_entries/9dee632/job-output.txt

https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b626f72581e3644c/zuul_opendev_logs_38c/734783/8/check/tripleo-upgrade-centos-8-molecule/38cc969/job-output.txt

[Pooja Jadhav (poojajadhav22)]

Fix is up : https://review.opendev.org/#/c/736183/

[Jose Luis Franco (jfrancoa)]

It looks like pip and virtualenv were removed from base infra images. Therefore, all the Zuul jobs which require them will need to make use of the ensure-venv or ensure-pip roles in order to get their jobs passing, an example for tripleo-upgrade can be found here:

https://review.opendev.org/#/c/736705/