The service_facts module does not work in Ubuntu 20.04

[hma]

Summary

Running the service_facts module on Ubuntu 20.04 causes the following error:

localhost | FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files: accounts-daemon.service                    enabled         enabled      "
}

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

ansible

Ansible Version

$ ansible --version

Configuration

$ ansible-config dump --only-changed

OS / Environment

Ubuntu 20.04

Steps to Reproduce

localhost | FAILED! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files: accounts-daemon.service enabled enabled "
}

Expected Results

ansible -m service_facts localhost

Actual Results

localhost | FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files: accounts-daemon.service                enabled         enabled      "
}

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

@hma23 Thanks for reporting this. Could you please specify the version of Ansible used? Since this issue is already fixed in 2.9, stable and devel.

Please refer - #68211

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

possible duplicate of #68536

[hma]

ansible 2.9.6
--installed with 'apt install ansible'
ran command: ansible -m service_facts localhost

Any workaround for this?

FAILED! => {
"ansible_facts": {
"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
},
"changed": false
}

MSG:

Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files: accounts-daemon.service enabled enabled

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

@hma23 Please upgrade to Ansible 2.9.8 or latest.

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