uninstall.yml playbook fails to remove /var/lib/docker if its mounted on separate filesystem
Issue
- uninstall.yml playbook fails to remove /var/lib/docker if its mounted on separate filesystem with below errors:
The full traceback is:
File "/tmp/ansible_5zSHkj/ansible_module_file.py", line 278, in main
shutil.rmtree(b_path, ignore_errors=False)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 256, in rmtree
onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 254, in rmtree
os.rmdir(path)
failed: [ose_master.example.com] (item=/var/lib/docker) => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"attributes": null,
"backup": null,
"content": null,
"delimiter": null,
"diff_peek": null,
"directory_mode": null,
"follow": false,
"force": false,
"group": null,
"mode": null,
"original_basename": null,
"owner": null,
"path": "/var/lib/docker",
"recurse": false,
"regexp": null,
"remote_src": null,
"selevel": null,
"serole": null,
"setype": null,
"seuser": null,
"src": null,
"state": "absent",
"unsafe_writes": null,
"validate": null
}
},
"item": "/var/lib/docker",
"msg": "rmtree failed: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: '/var/lib/docker'"
}
Environment
- OpenShift Container Platform
- 3.9
- /var/lib/docker mounted on separate filesystem.
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