"Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files"

[peace_corpse]

systemd list-unit-files format changed in version 245

This results in ansible failing with the error "Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files: <unit.name>" when service_facts is queried

Solution is to update ansible from v2.9.6 to at least v2.9.7

To reproduce this error, run:

$ ansible localhost -m service_facts

Related patch:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/bd4fdb1ca23fb043789042074f3f9fa4fb07fbf1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tony Vroon (tonyvroon)]

The fix version is 2.9.8, not 2.9.7
Upstream commit: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/bd4fdb1ca23fb043789042074f3f9fa4fb07fbf1
Upstream PR: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68211

This is particularly bad on Focal systems managing other Focal systems, and affects DataDog playbooks in particular:
https://github.com/DataDog/ansible-datadog/issues/274

Please could you upload a 2.9.8 package to focal?

[Orion-cora (orion-cora)]

I am hitting this as well. Please fix. Thank you.