<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don’t know this code, but the error message implies that the `nginx` user doesn’t exist on that box. is it visible (e.g in `/etc/passwd`).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Assuming that is the case, the question is ‘what changed’ since the ansible code was last run (if anything - it could be a race condition that happens randomly). I’d guess that nginx installation failed/was removed.<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jul 2022, at 08:42, Derek O keeffe <<a href="mailto:derekokeeffe85@yahoo.ie" class="">derekokeeffe85@yahoo.ie</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">I have ran the OSA playbooks to completion on more than one occasion but recently I'm having an issue I can't figure out so if anyone could shed some light on it it would be much appreciated.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">When running "<span class="">openstack-ansible setup-openstack.yml" I get to the task named "<span class="">TASK [python_venv_build : Create wheel directory on the build host]</span>" and I get the following error:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;" class="">fatal: [infra1_gnocchi_container-7c40503c -> infra1_repo_container-017aea8f(xx.xx.xx.xx)]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "gid": 0, "group": "root", "mode": "0755", "msg": "chown failed: failed to look up user nginx", "owner": "root", "path": "/var/www", "size": 4096, "state": "directory", "uid": 0}</font></span><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class="">I cannot seem to find anything about this and didn't see this error when running the playbooks previously. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class="">Regards,</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><span class=""><span class="">Derek</span></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>