Failed to set permissions on the temporary files Ansible needs to create when becoming an unprivileged user

[hubitor]

I'm getting this error:

TASK [anxs.postgresql : PostgreSQL | Check binary version] ****************************************************
fatal: [appserver]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Failed to set permissions on the temporary files Ansible needs to create when becoming an unprivileged user (rc: 1, err: chown: changing ownership of '/var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1578784826.169562-122218142055240/': Operation not permitted\nchown: changing ownership of '/var/tmp/ansible-tmp-1578784826.169562-122218142055240/AnsiballZ_command.py': Operation not permitted\n}). For information on working around this, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html#becoming-an-unprivileged-user"}

PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************************
appserver                  : ok=29   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=63   rescued=0    ignored=0 

for this playbook:

- hosts: appserver
  become: yes
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.nginx }
    - { role: anxs.postgresql }
    - { role: anxs.monit }

and when I check the version:

$ psql -V
psql (PostgreSQL) 12.1 (Debian 12.1-1.pgdg100+1)

although the version in main.yml was 11: postgresql_version: 11

[atylerj]

This happened to me when attempting to load postgres 10 on ubuntu 20.04.

The workaround for me was to install acl

This was my hint, I really don't know any more about this, just sharing https://github.com/georchestra/ansible/issues/55

[patsevanton]

PR for fix set permissions on the temporary files on Ubuntu 20.04 https://github.com/ANXS/postgresql/pull/529

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