Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.
So, while hacking on the geekoops roles, molecule test was complaining on my Tumbleweed machine:
"Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory"
More specifically the error that molecule test spits out looks like the following:
TASK [geekoops-nginx : Ensure nginx service is enabled] *************************************
fatal: [leap15]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "/usr/bin/systemctl", "msg": "Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory", "rc": 1, "stderr": "Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory\n", "stderr_lines": ["Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}
PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************
leap15 : ok=3 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
After a bit of Googling I figured the underlying issue is probably a change in systemd 248, which makes docker not being able to mount the cgroups. A useful comment in the filed issue finally was working, and I could resume testing on Tumbleweed.
So, if you see this error while running molecule test, a practical workaround is to set boot your system with the kernel parameter:
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0
You can enter it directly in grub, or edit /etc/default/grub and put it into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT there. I don’t recommend to the latter, as this is only a temporary workaround until this is fixed and you probably forget to remove it.
