Getting Err22 on MacOS X with ansible-lint 6

[alxgomz]

Summary

When running ansible-lint on my project I get the error below after upgrading to ansible-lint 6.0.2. This seems to be related to the presence of the galaxy.yml file at the root of my project. It contains details about the playbook as per the ansible-galaxy format but the playbook itself has not been pushed to galaxy (it is just here waiting for maturity)

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Ansible and Ansible Lint details

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/bin/ansible-lint", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_run_cli_entrypoint())
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 253, in _run_cli_entrypoint
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 166, in main
    app = get_app()
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/app.py", line 210, in get_app
    _perform_mockings()
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/_mockings.py", line 87, in _perform_mockings
    if not link_path.exists() or os.readlink(link_path) != target:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/Users/me/.cache/ansible-compat/a15ca0/collections/ansible_collections/alfresco/acs'

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.12.4]
  config file = /Users/Alexandre.Chapellon@hyland.com/workspace/alfresco-ansible-deployment/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/Alexandre.Chapellon@hyland.com/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Users/Alexandre.Chapellon@hyland.com/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/Alexandre.Chapellon@hyland.com/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /Users/Alexandre.Chapellon@hyland.com/.virtualenvs/aad/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.10 (main, Jan 15 2022, 11:48:00) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)]
  jinja version = 3.1.1
  libyaml = True
ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 6.0.2 using ansible 2.12.4

• ansible installation method: pip (in virtualenv)
• ansible-lint installation method: pip (in virtualenv)

OS / ENVIRONMENT

MacOSX Monterey

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ansible-deployment.git
# switch to a python venv
pip install -r requirements.txt
ansible-lint playbook/acs.yml

Desired Behavior

Linting completes and return result

Actual Behavior

ansible-lint fails with the error bellow

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/bin/ansible-lint", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_run_cli_entrypoint())
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 253, in _run_cli_entrypoint
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 166, in main
    app = get_app()
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/app.py", line 210, in get_app
    _perform_mockings()
  File "/Users/me/.virtualenvs/aad/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansiblelint/_mockings.py", line 87, in _perform_mockings
    if not link_path.exists() or os.readlink(link_path) != target:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/Users/me/.cache/ansible-compat/a15ca0/collections/ansible_collections/alfresco/acs'

Other info:

The same reproduction steps work ok on linux. Removing the galaxy.yml file fixes the problem.

[hswong3i]

@alxgomz I found a solution: sudo ansible-lint.

Background: Recently I change my Ansible Collection for Kubernetes (molecule + libvirt based, https://github.com/alvistack/ansible-collection-kubernetes) to be running with sudo during CI, so my $HOME/.cache/ansible-compat directory now belongs to root but not my current user. Because https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/blob/main/src/ansiblelint/_mockings.py#L70-L76 will create a symlink for mocking, in case directory permission error the symlink will not able to be created and so failed.

[alxgomz]

Thanks @hswong3i In my case the CI runs on linux hosts so I'm not facing the issue there. Instead it's happening on my local dev machine whe pre-commit hook kicks in. And of course I don't really to sudo git commit :)

The issue arose while I had a collections in the cache that was a folder. After I deleted it and ran lint again, it got recreated as a symlink and there's no more error. I guess that's an issue only if you migrate from env where previous versions of ansible-lint already populated the cache

[hswong3i]

@alxgomz yes I also find delete the existing cached folders from $HOME/.cache/ansible* help ;-)

[egvimo]

I have exactly the same issue since version 6. I can reproduce it locally (Ubuntu) and on CI (Molecule lint).

Also for me removing the galaxy.yml file resolves the issue.

[hswong3i]

Maybe a better solution with prerun: false, e.g. https://github.com/alvistack/ansible-collection-kubernetes/commit/b265db909b52a35d61cef06e6a7fac0ce1ed0416

See https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html?highlight=galaxy#prerun for more information.

[egvimo]

This is not an issue with Molecule. It happens if I run ansible-lint directly. The error occurs also via Molecule because it calls Ansible lint to lint the role.

[ssbarnea]

AFAIK This bug does not reproduce with v6.2.1

[egvimo]

For me this is still happening with v6.2.1.

[ssbarnea]

@egvimo Can you remove the cache folder and recreate virtualenv? My main machine is a macos and i never seen this myself, i suspect a local "glitch" that you might have. We really need to find a way to reproduce it to be able to fix it.

[egvimo]

It is failing on CI (Ubuntu) with the linting step of Molecule:

OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/home/runner/.cache/ansible-compat/9c3242/collections/ansible_collections/egvimo/misc'

I've tried to remove the /home/runner/.cache/ folder in the step before. So I think it is not an an issue with local caching, although I can reproduce it locally with this repository.