no action detected in task about ansible-role-ntp HOT 5 CLOSED

• Debian Buster
• Ansible version 2.3.1.0

I'm having the same error message by one statement before:

ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in '/ansible/playbooks/roles/geerlingguy.ntp/tasks/main.yml': line 16, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:


- include_tasks: clock-rhel-6.yml
  ^ here


The error appears to have been in '/ansible/playbooks/roles/geerlingguy.ntp/tasks/main.yml': line 16, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:


- include_tasks: clock-rhel-6.yml
  ^ here

removing - include_tasks: clock-rhel-6.yml fixes the problem for me.
Do you have any idea why this is happening? Thanks a lot.

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After having a think it's likely that ntp_timezone is not set. So perhaps this is not an actual issue with the role. I'd still like some advice on how to deal with this, though.

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That task is: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-ntp/blob/master/tasks/main.yml#L19-L21

I'm guessing you may be running an older version of Ansible (ansible --version to check) which doesn't have the timezone module? This role requires I think 2.2 or later.

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@xamanu - Ansible 2.3 likely doesn't work with include_tasks? That's my best guess. Also, to that original issue I noticed found a duplicate dict key (apt_upgrade). in there, maybe that was an issue elsewhere in the playbook?

Regardless, marking this as closed, can't reproduce.

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