proxmox: module is trying to start an already started instance

[chemnic]

Summary

I upgraded to version 10.3 from 8.6, and now the the proxmox module fails
when state=started and instance is already started.

I tried with 10.3 and main branch.

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

proxmox

Ansible Version

ansible [core 2.18.2]
  config file = /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/chestrada/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/chestrada/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/chestrada/py_ansible/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.11.11 (main, Dec  4 2024, 08:55:08) [GCC 9.4.0] (/home/chestrada/py_ansible/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.5
  libyaml = True

Community.general Version

# /home/chestrada/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 10.4.0 

# /home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 10.3.0 

Configuration

CACHE_PLUGIN(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = jsonfile
CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = ~/ansible_cache_vfmsa
CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 3600
CONFIG_FILE() = /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg
DEFAULT_CALLBACK_PLUGIN_PATH(env: ANSIBLE_CALLBACK_PLUGINS) = ['/home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ara/plugins/callback']
DEFAULT_FILTER_PLUGIN_PATH(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/chestrada/repos/chem/ansible/plugins/filter', '/home/chestrada/repos/v>
DEFAULT_FORKS(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 20
DEFAULT_GATHERING(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = smart
DEFAULT_INTERNAL_POLL_INTERVAL(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 0.001
DEFAULT_LOOKUP_PLUGIN_PATH(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/chestrada/repos/chem/ansible/plugins/lookup']
DEFAULT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE(env: ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE) = /home/chestrada/.ssh/ansible
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(env: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER) = admin_remote
DEFAULT_ROLES_PATH(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_roles', '/home/chestrada/repos/chem_roles', '/home/chest>
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 50
DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(env: ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE) = /home/chestrada/.ansible_vault_vfmsa
DIFF_ALWAYS(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = True
EDITOR(env: EDITOR) = vim
HOST_PATTERN_MISMATCH(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = ignore
INJECT_FACTS_AS_VARS(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
INVENTORY_CACHE_ENABLED(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = True
PERSISTENT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 200
PERSISTENT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = 200
RETRY_FILES_SAVE_PATH(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = /home/chestrada/.ansible-retry
USE_PERSISTENT_CONNECTIONS(/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg) = True

OS / Environment

Target server: Proxmox 8.3.3

Controller: Ubuntu 20.04

Steps to Reproduce

- name: Make sure LXC container is started
  community.general.proxmox:
    api_host: 192.168.1.11
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: somepassword
    validate_certs: false
    state: started
    vmid: 924
  delegate_to: localhost

Expected Results

Ansible should be idempotent and not fail when the instance is already started.

Actual Results

fatal: [test1 -> localhost]: FAILED! => 
    changed: false
    msg: 'An error occurred: 500 Internal Server Error: CT 924 already running'

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the Ansible Code of Conduct

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[russoz]

Hi @chemnic thanks for reporting! Could you please paste the output with -vvvv in the ansible-playbook call?

[chemnic]

Sorry for the delay.

Here you have it:

ansible-playbook [core 2.18.2]
  config file = /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/chestrada/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/chestrada/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/chestrada/py_ansible/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 3.11.11 (main, Dec  4 2024, 08:55:08) [GCC 9.4.0] (/home/chestrada/py_ansible/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.5
  libyaml = True
Using /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
Loading collection ansible.builtin from 
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/05_role_hierarchy.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/05_role_hierarchy.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/05_role_hierarchy.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/10_app_vars.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/10_app_vars.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/10_app_vars.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/15_server_role.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/15_server_role.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/15_server_role.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/20_server_site.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/20_server_site.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/20_server_site.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/25_server_vars.toml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/25_server_vars.toml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/25_server_vars.toml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
yaml declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/25_server_vars.toml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/25_server_vars.toml inventory source with toml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/30_other.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/30_other.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/30_other.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/40_constructed.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/40_constructed.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Using inventory plugin 'ansible_collections.ansible.builtin.plugins.inventory.constructed' to process inventory source '/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/40_constructed.yml'
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/40_constructed.yml inventory source with auto plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/50_init.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/50_init.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/50_init.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/51_lxd_instance.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/51_lxd_instance.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/51_lxd_instance.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/52_pve_instance.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/52_pve_instance.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/52_pve_instance.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/80_constructed.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/80_constructed.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Using inventory plugin 'ansible_collections.ansible.builtin.plugins.inventory.constructed' to process inventory source '/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/80_constructed.yml'
Parsed /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod/80_constructed.yml inventory source with auto plugin
Loading collection community.general from /home/chestrada/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general
Loading callback plugin default of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py
Loading callback plugin ara_default of type awesome, v2.0 from /home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ara/plugins/callback/ara_default.py
Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: admin, api, auth, contenttypes, db, sessions
Running migrations:
  No migrations to apply.
Skipping callback 'default', as we already have a stdout callback.
Skipping callback 'minimal', as we already have a stdout callback.
Skipping callback 'oneline', as we already have a stdout callback.

PLAYBOOK: test1.yml *****************************************************************************************************************************************
Positional arguments: ./playbook_misc/test1.yml
verbosity: 4
private_key_file: /home/chestrada/.ssh/ansible
remote_user: admin_remote
connection: ssh
become_method: sudo
tags: ('all',)
diff: True
inventory: ('/home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/inv/prod',)
subset: test1
forks: 20
1 plays in ./playbook_misc/test1.yml

PLAY [Play] *************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Make sure LXC container is started] *******************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/chestrada/repos/vfmsa_ansible/playbook_misc/test1.yml:8
File lookup using /home/chestrada/repos/secrets/hosts/non_persistent/vfm1-pves-01/linux_root as file
Trying secret FileVaultSecret(filename='/home/chestrada/.ansible_vault_vfmsa') for vault_id=default
<localhost> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: chestrada
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~chestrada && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp `"&& mkdir "` echo /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044="` echo /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /home/chestrada/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py
<localhost> PUT /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-3732599k29gy45j/tmp45q9p95h TO /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044/AnsiballZ_proxmox.py
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044/ /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044/AnsiballZ_proxmox.py && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'no_proxy=192.168.1.11 /home/chestrada/py_ansible/bin/python /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044/AnsiballZ_proxmox.py && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /home/chestrada/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1739194103.697018-3732642-177334031886044/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
The full traceback is:
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload__fdul2e6/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 1732, in main
    proxmox.run()
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload__fdul2e6/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 800, in run
    self.lxc_started(
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload__fdul2e6/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 954, in lxc_started
    self.start_lxc_instance(vmid, node, timeout)
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload__fdul2e6/ansible_community.general.proxmox_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/proxmox.py", line 1307, in start_lxc_instance
    taskid = getattr(proxmox_node, self.VZ_TYPE)(vmid).status.start.post()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 170, in post
    return self(args)._request("POST", data=data)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/chestrada/py_ansible/lib/python3.11/site-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 147, in _request
    raise ResourceException(
fatal: [test1 -> localhost]: FAILED! => 
    changed: false
    invocation:
        module_args:
            api_host: 192.168.1.11
            api_password: VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER
            api_port: null
            api_token_id: null
            api_token_secret: null
            api_user: root@pam
            clone: null
            clone_type: opportunistic
            cores: null
            cpus: null
            cpuunits: null
            description: null
            disk: null
            disk_volume: null
            features: null
            force: false
            hookscript: null
            hostname: null
            ip_address: null
            memory: null
            mount_volumes: null
            mounts: null
            nameserver: null
            netif: null
            node: null
            onboot: null
            ostemplate: null
            ostype: auto
            password: null
            pool: null
            pubkey: null
            purge: false
            searchdomain: null
            startup: null
            state: started
            storage: local
            swap: null
            tags: null
            timeout: 30
            timezone: null
            unprivileged: true
            update: null
            validate_certs: false
            vmid: 924
    msg: 'An error occurred: 500 Internal Server Error: CT 924 already running'

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************
test1                      : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   

Note: there was a typo in the original report: api_host: 192.168.1.11", with an extra quotation mark at the end. I fixed it.