any_errors_fatal doesn't work when a remote host is unreachable in the given batch about ansible HOT 6 OPEN

It might still be in use (people still use Ansible 1.9), but it's not supported and no longer receives bug or security fixes. 2.12 reached end of life 2023-05-22.

The oldest currently supported version is 2.14, which will itself reach EOL in a couple of months (2024-05-20).

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I believe this is a minimal reproducer:

- hosts: unreachable_host,host1,host2
  gather_facts: false
  any_errors_fatal: true
  serial:
    - 1
  tasks:
    - command: "false"

The first batch containing an unreachable host should fail the whole play but it continues on to the second batch, a reachable host, host1 executing a task that fails which finally fails the whole play not continuing to host2.

I am working on a fix. The issue seems to be that for any_errors_fatal we fail all hosts including the unreachable ones so then when we counts failed hosts to see if the whole batch failed, unreachable hosts are counted twice because they are counted as both failed and unreachable:

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Files identified in the description:

• lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py

If these files are incorrect, please update the component name section of the description or use the component bot command.

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@kurzandras ansible-core 2.12 is not supported and no longer receives bug fixes. Please test against one of the supported versions of ansible-core, preferably the most recent one, to see whether the bug has been fixed.

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@kurzandras ansible-core 2.12 is not supported and no longer receives bug fixes. Please test against one of the supported versions of ansible-core, preferably the most recent one, to see whether the bug has been fixed.

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what? ansible-core 2.12 is still in use

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Thank you for your answers! It is really a big problem for me, since I can not upgrade due to missing python dependencies. Could you please at least suggest any workarounds for the given issue? Any help is really appreciated! Thank you very much in advance!

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