How to resolve the error "Error: creating hosts file for container" while running any job from Ansible Automation Platfrom GUI?

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-05-17T14:37:15+00:00 -

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Environment

• Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform 2.x

Issue

• Ansible Automation platform fails to run any job and throws the below error:

  Error: creating hosts file for container 93612238f606516785d97508a90a5b5b215d0c08dfc79f4cf25df1674a67310c: failed to create new hosts file: open /etc/hosts: permission denied
  

Resolution

• Check and correct the permissions of /etc/hosts file. The default permission should be as follows:

  # ls -l /etc/hosts
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 158 Jun 23  2020 /etc/hosts
  

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