Quickstart is failing with syntax error

[Martin Mágr]

+ ansible-playbook -vv /root/.quickstart/playbooks/quickstart-extras.yml -e @/root/.quickstart/config/release/master.yml -e @/root/tripleo/tripleo-quickstart/para-standard-nodes.yaml -e @/root/.quickstart/config/general_config/minimal.yml -e @/root/.quickstart/config/environments/default_libvirt.yml -e local_working_dir=/root/.quickstart -e virthost=<snip> -t untagged,provision,environment,libvirt,undercloud-scripts,undercloud-inventory,overcloud-scripts,undercloud-setup,undercloud-install,undercloud-post-install,tripleoui-validate,teardown-all
ansible-playbook 2.8.4
  config file = /root/tripleo/tripleo-quickstart/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tripleo-quickstart/library', u'/root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/tripleo-quickstart/library', u'/root/tripleo/tripleo-quickstart/library']
  ansible python module location = /root/.quickstart/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /root/.quickstart/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Jun 20 2019, 20:27:34) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)]
Using /root/tripleo/tripleo-quickstart/ansible.cfg as config file
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: 'include' for playbook includes. You should use 'import_playbook' instead. This feature will be removed in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be
disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/atop.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/non_root_user_setup.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/ovb_setup_connectivity.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/package_installs.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/vxlan_networking.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/hostname.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-setup/tasks/ansible_cfg.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-deploy/tasks/novajoin_prep.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-deploy/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-deploy/tasks/install-undercloud.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-deploy/tasks/post-install.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/undercloud-deploy/tasks/tripleo-ui.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-containers/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-containers/tasks/overcloud-prep-containers.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-images/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-images/tasks/overcloud-prep-images.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-flavors/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-flavors/tasks/overcloud-prep-flavors.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-network/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-prep-network/tasks/overcloud-prep-network.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/pre-deploy.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/create-scripts.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/deployed-server.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/deploy-overcloud.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/overcloud-status.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/overcloud-deploy/tasks/post-deploy.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/tempest-venv.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/tempest-rpm.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/tempest-containers.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/pre-tempest.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/run-tempest.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/tempest-results.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/stackviz.yml
statically imported: /root/.quickstart/usr/local/share/ansible/roles/validate-tempest/tasks/post-tempest.yml
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: 'PlaybookCLI' object has no attribute 'options'
to see the full traceback, use -vvv

[Sagi (Sergey) Shnaidman (sshnaidm)]

Which ara version do you use?

[Martin Mágr (mmagr)]

I don't use ARA. Btw workaroud is:

[root@dell-t5810ws-rdo-13 tripleo-quickstart]$ git diff
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2740482..9206b46 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmd2==0.8.5
 ara<1.0
-ansible>=2.8,<2.9
+ansible>=2.7,<2.8
 jmespath
 netaddr>=0.7.18
 os-client-config

[wes hayutin (weshayutin)]

Are you hitting this w/ a clean .quickstart dir and 2.8? Perhaps there was old code?

[Luke Short (ekultails)]

I found another open source project that ran into the same issue and has a related fix. Looks to be a compatibility breaking change with using Ansible 2.8 via it's Python library/API.

https://github.com/DataDog/ansible-datadog-callback/issues/46
https://github.com/DataDog/ansible-datadog-callback/pull/47

[Sagi (Sergey) Shnaidman (sshnaidm)]

It's related to ara version