ERROR! 'notify' is not a valid attribute for a Block

[achebib]

Question
Someone facing this issue?

ERROR! 'notify' is not a valid attribute for a Block

The error appears to be in '/home/cis_rhel7/roles/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/prelim.yml': line 204, colum
n 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

• name: "PRELIM | Optional | If IPv6 disable to stop chronyd listening"
  ^ here

**Environment:
ansible 2.10.8
config file = /home/ansible/cis_rhel7/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0]

[Bert-Schuurman]

We also run to this error,

Error:

ERROR! 'notify' is not a valid attribute for a Block

Full output:

# ansible-playbook -vvvv site.yml -i invent.ini | tee /var/log/log_cis_$(date +%s).txt                                                                        ansible-playbook 2.9.27
  config file = /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules', u'/root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/library']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 2.7.5 (default, Oct  6 2023, 09:53:10) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)]
Using /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/invent.ini as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/invent.ini as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/invent.ini as it did not pass its verify_file() method
yaml declined parsing /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/invent.ini as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Set default localhost to localhost
Parsed /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/invent.ini inventory source with ini plugin
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/check_prereqs.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/prelim.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/parse_etc_password.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/pre_remediation_audit.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/audit_only.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/main.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.1.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.1.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.2.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.3.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.4.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.5.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.6.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.1.2.7.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.2.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.3.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.4.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.5.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/warning_facts.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.6.x.yml
statically imported: /root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.7.x.yml
ERROR! 'notify' is not a valid attribute for a Block

The error appears to be in '/root/first_boot/RHEL7-CIS/tasks/section_1/cis_1.7.x.yml': line 65, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:


- name: "1.7.4 | PATCH | Ensure GDM screen locks when the user is idle"
  ^ here

[uk-bolly]

hi @achebib

Thank you for taking the time to raise the issue and providing this most helpful information.
Unfortunately it didn't get a chance to run to show that the minimal version of ansible is 2.11.1 that is supported. It failed while loading the content hence why you have the error.
2.10 is now quite old it went EOL May 2022. We do try and keep it as backwardly compatible as possible but unfortunately this is not possible in this case for the version you are using.

It maybe just a matter of moving it to the task for the one control, but other items may then fail.

kindest

uk-bolly