xenial: GIS.lab Unit initialization fails

[landam]

I installed Xenial on the unit and tested initialization of the unit:

ansible ... providers/gislab-unit/gislab-unit.yml

is failing with

failed: [gislab-unit-cvut] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
BECOME-SUCCESS-xckkngtufcobeausojkxucezynnhewcr
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found
OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips  1 Mar 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2

[landam]

After installation python manually the playbook fails

msg: Could not find aptitude. Please ensure it is installed.

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 
           to retry, use: --limit @/home/landa/gislab-unit.retry

[landam]

When aptitude is installed manually the playbook fails

TASK: [Restart GIS.lab Unit machine] ****************************************** 
fatal: [gislab-unit-cvut] => SSH Error: Shared connection to 147.32.131.60 closed.
It is sometimes useful to re-run the command using -vvvv, which prints SSH debug output to help diagnose the issue.

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

but the unit is rebooted.

[landam]

Python and Aptitude issues should be fixed by ba90ac9. The remaining task is "Restart GIS.lab Unit machine" which is reported as failed even the unit is rebooted.

[landam]

@imincik @mpastor I just wonder what is the right solution:

• (a) to modify gislab.seed.template

or

• (b) to add the new task to install missing packages (python and aptitude) to gislab-unit.yml

?

I guess (b), right?

[landam]

https://github.com/gislab-npo/gislab/commit/25164256410f01a552eef853a5257d99c653895a implements option (b). Closing.