ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action . This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path

Question

I've got an Ansible Collections in my Ansible playbook as follows:

- name: Create a profile for the user
  community.windows.win_user_profile:
    username: test
    name: test
    state: present

and the collection is installed via

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows

so I can see it at ~/.ansible/collections.

However I keep getting:

ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.windows.win_user_profile'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

I've also copied it alongside the playbook just in case but still get the same error message.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I got the same error with Ansible 2.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 after install community.general. The solution in this case was installing ansible.posix

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix

as this contains the mount module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/posix/mount_module.html

Answer 2

ansible 2.9 uses collections different. One way is to add them to the top:

---
- hosts: all
  collections:
    - community.windows

and then later use:

- name: Create a profile for the user
  win_user_profile:
    username: test
    name: test
    state: present

for reference:

• Use Ansible Collections
• collections are backwardcompatible

Dirty: dont do this, but it works.

ansible-config dump |grep DEFAULT_MODULE_PATH

and copy them there (example replace path and name)...

cp -p  ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/system/sudoers.py ./library/