Ansible 1.9.4 : Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation

Question

I bumped into Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation issue: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-apache/issues/50

I posted a lot of details in Gi

Answer 1

The answer from @guaka was entirely correct for me. It lacks only one thing-- where to put become: yes.

In the following, there are three places the become might go. Only one of them is correct:

 - name: setup nginx web server
     #1 become: yes
     include_role:
       name: nginx
       #2 become: yes
     vars:
       ansible_user: "{{ devops_ssh_user }}"
       #3 become: yes

In position #2 you will get an unexpected parameter error, because become is not a parameter for the include_role module.

In position #3 the play will run, but will not execute as sudo.

Only in position #1 does become: yes do any good. become is a parameter for the task, not for the module. It is not a variable like ansible_user. Just to be clear, here's a working configuration:

 - name: setup nginx web server
     become: yes
     include_role:
       name: nginx
     vars:
       ansible_user: "{{ devops_ssh_user }}"