`ansible --version` command throws an ERROR - pip

Question

Good Day guys
I have installed ansible on my mac, it was successfully installed but then when I run the command ansible --version it throws me a n error:
Unhandled error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 559, in update_config_data
value, origin = self.get_config_value_and_origin(config, configfile)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 503, in get_config_value_and_origin
value = ensure_type(value, defs[config].get('type'), origin=origin)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 124, in ensure_type
value = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix, dir=value)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 339, in mkdtemp
_os.mkdir(file, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/patrick/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-37505vvsQNX'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ansible", line 62, in <module>
import ansible.constants as C
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/constants.py", line 174, in <module>
config = ConfigManager()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 291, in __init__
self.update_config_data()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 571, in update_config_data
raise AnsibleError("Invalid settings supplied for %s: %s\n" % (config, to_native(e)), orig_exc=e)
ansible.errors.AnsibleError: Invalid settings supplied for DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/patrick/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-37505vvsQNX'
Appreciate your help guys.

Answer 1

Check if this is similar to iiab/iiab/issue 1212:
After some more digging, I found the real source of this problem was hardcoded paths in ansible.cfg
Or the more recent ansible/galaxy-dev issue 107, which leads to PR 110:
The default ansible temp dir ~/.ansible/tmp is accessed by ansible-doc via the galaxy-importer.
This works OK in the galaxy-dev local env, but on the CI environment it attempts to create dir /.ansible/tmp and fails.
This PR changes the default ansible temp dir to /tmp/ansible which is outside the user home (and in the local env, /tmp has greater permissions)
Try and change DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP to /tmp.

Answer 2

~/.ansible/tmp is probably root, so not accessible. chown it to user

Answer 3

I have disabled 'gathering' in ansible.cfg to fix the issue.
# gathering = False
Below error occurring before commenting this.
~ % ansible
Unhandled error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.6.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 627, in update_config_data
value, origin = self.get_config_value_and_origin(config, configfile)
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.6.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible/config/manager.py", line 586, in get_config_value_and_origin
raise AnsibleOptionsError('Invalid value "%s" for configuration option "%s", valid values are: %s' %
ansible.errors.AnsibleOptionsError: Invalid value "False" for configuration option "setting: DEFAULT_GATHERING ", valid values are: implicit, explicit, smart