Nginx cannot restart via Ansible

Question

I have a task in a playbook that tries to restart nginx via a handler as per usual: ``` - name: run migrations command: bash -lc "some command" notify: restart nginx ``` The playbook however breaks on this error: ``` NOTIFIED: [deploy | restart nginx] ******************************************** failed: [REDACTED] => {"failed": true} msg: failure 1 running systemctl show for 'nginx.service': Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager. ``` The handler is standard: ``` - name: restart nginx service: name=nginx state=restarted enabled=yes ``` And the way that I've setup nginx is not out of the ordinary as well: ``` - name: install nginx apt: name=nginx state=present sudo: yes - name: copy nginx.conf to the server template: src=nginx.conf.j2 dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf sudo: yes - name: delete default virtualhost file: path=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default state=absent sudo: yes - name: add mysite site-available template: src=mysite.conf.j2 dest=/etc/nginx/sites-avail…

Accepted Answer

The handler was:

```
- name: restart nginx
  service: name=nginx state=restarted enabled=yes
```

It seems that the state and enabled flags cannot both be present. By trimming the above to the following, it worked.

```
- name: restart nginx
  service: name=nginx state=restarted
```

Why this is, and why it started breaking suddenly, I do not know.

Nginx cannot restart via Ansible

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