Conflicting action statement in ansible

Question

I am getting the following error : Conflicting action statement in ansible.

I tried to understand, my code seems to be correct. I declared the name correctly though it gives an error in the task name.

Playbook:

---
 - hosts: webhost
   sudo: yes
   connection: ssh

   tasks:
    - name: debuging module
      shell: ps aux
      register: output
      debug: var=output

Error message:

ERROR! conflicting action statements

The error appears to have been in '/home/test/playbooks/debug.yml': line 7, column 7, but may be present elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be here:
    
       tasks:
        - name: debuging module
          ^ here

score 39 · Answer 1 · edited May 06 '22 at 12:33

39

Here is the problem, you have mixed up two tasks into one:

---
- hosts: webhost
  sudo: yes
  connection: ssh

  tasks:
    - name: debuging module
      shell: ps aux
      register: output

    - name: show the value of output
      debug: var=output

And out put of the playbook will be like this:

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [192.168.33.100]

TASK [debuging module] *********************************************************
changed: [192.168.33.100]

TASK [show the value of output] ************************************************
ok: [192.168.33.100] => {
    "output": {
        "changed": true,
        "cmd": "ps aux",
        "delta": "0:00:00.004981",
        "end": "2016-06-26 06:25:22.975876",
        "rc": 0,
        "start": "2016-06-26 06:25:22.970895",
        "stderr": "",
        "stdout": "USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND\nroot         1  0.8  0.2  24432  2380 ?        Ss   06:23   0:00 /sbin/init\nroot         2  0.0  0.0

Hope that help you

edited May 06 '22 at 12:33

4wk_

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answered Jun 26 '16 at 06:22

Arbab Nazar

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thank you for the reply . can you please tell me when to use hyphen and when not to use hyphen for a task, that really confuses me . – robert williams Jun 26 '16 at 20:32
use hyphen at the beginning of each task. does my answer solve your problem? – Arbab Nazar Jun 27 '16 at 15:00
yes, it solved my problem . but i just want to know when to use hyphen and when not to use hyphen . becoz i lack clarity , i am getting those errors . – robert williams Jun 27 '16 at 15:02
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Can you marked it valid answer, this link will help you to understand https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples – Arbab Nazar Jun 27 '16 at 15:03

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