Error saying ERROR problem running ansible hosts --list Errno 8 Exec format error while running ansible playbook

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I have ansible 1.2.3 installed and I tried running the ansible playbook using the following command:

ansible-playbook -i ansible_hosts playbook.yml

I get the following error:

ERROR: problem running ansible_hosts --list ([Errno 8] Exec format error)
Feb 4, 2019 in Ansible by Anjana
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Can you please show your playbook, that you're trying to run?

Here's the playbook:

---
- hosts: development
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
    - name: install curl
      apt: pkg=curl update_cache=yes

3 answers to this question.

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Upgrading the ansible version worked for me.
answered Feb 4, 2019 by Harsh
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Hey @Anjana, you need to remove execution rights on ansible_hosts

chmod a-x ansible_hosts

if this doesn't work. try it with sudo

sudo chmod a-x ansible_hosts
answered Feb 4, 2019 by Pam
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Also, remove the execute permission for the ansible files using the following command:

find . -type f -exec chmod -x {} \;
answered Feb 4, 2019 by Pam

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