diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py index a94060ab9ae..d82ec2a808f 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py +++ b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py @@ -107,10 +107,21 @@ import __main__ # Ubuntu15.10 with python2.7 Works # Ubuntu15.10 with python3.4 Fails without this # Ubuntu16.04.1 with python3.5 Fails without this +# To test on another platform: +# * use the copy module (since this shadows the stdlib copy module) +# * Turn off pipelining +# * Make sure that the destination file does not exist +# * ansible ubuntu16-test -m copy -a 'src=/etc/motd dest=/var/tmp/m' +# This will traceback in shutil. Looking at the complete traceback will show +# that shutil is importing copy which finds the ansible module instead of the +# stdlib module scriptdir = None try: scriptdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__main__.__file__)) -except AttributeError: +except (AttributeError, OSError): + # Some platforms don't set __file__ when reading from stdin + # OSX raises OSError if using abspath() in a directory we don't have + # permission to read. pass if scriptdir is not None: sys.path = [p for p in sys.path if p != scriptdir]