fatal: "Failed to connect to the host via scp"

[gekmihesg]

fatal: "Failed to connect to the host via scp"

[JayBraker]

Yes. This was already hinted at in a PR #59
Maybe accepting that or amending the docs appropriately would help avoid confusion by others

[Jonny007-MKD]

Hi Josha,
I suspect this is rather related to OpenWRT 23.05 than to Debian Bookworm, but who knows.
Is there some helpful output when running the playbook with ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1?

$ ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 ~/venv/bin/ansible-playbook ./Documents/router.yml -i ./Documents/inventory.conf

[JayBraker]

Unfortunately I disagree, switching to an older OpenSSH 7 install (which shipped with ubuntu-18.04) circumvented the issue entirely.
Maybe two separate issues collide here but I am pretty confident it is not just the newer OpenWRT at fault.

I will provide Debug output but I didn't see anything stick out yesterday

[Jonny007-MKD]

Oh, true, OpenSSH 9 deprecated SCP:
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0
openwrt/openwrt#9889

Probably the best solution is to set ansible_scp_extra_args = "-O" on the host/group in the inventory:
ansible/ansible#78600

[Jonny007-MKD]

I agree. @gekmihesg doesn't seem to actively maintain this role, though.

[marek22k]

I also have this problem. Are there any news in the meantime?