nAttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?\n", "module_stdout

[Lexicanium]

Describe the bug

on fresh installation, from master trying to deploy on fresh Azure cloud

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TASK [cloud-azure : pause] ***************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [cloud-azure : set_fact] ************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [cloud-azure : Create AlgoVPN Server] ***********************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 107, in <module>\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 47, in invoke_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/modules/azure_rm_deployment.py\", line 706, in <module>\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/modules/azure_rm_deployment.py\", line 702, in main\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/modules/azure_rm_deployment.py\", line 465, in __init__\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py\", line 469, in __init__\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/modules/azure_rm_deployment.py\", line 475, in exec_module\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/modules/azure_rm_deployment.py\", line 532, in deploy_template\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py\", line 1071, in rm_client\n  File \"/var/folders/gf/k97vplfs0kq5rgx4cp5557sh0000gn/T/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload_8me0orst/ansible_azure_rm_deployment_payload.zip/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/plugins/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py\", line 882, in get_mgmt_svc_client\nAttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

TASK [include_tasks] *********************************************************************************************************************************
included: /Users/standard/Downloads/algo-master/playbooks/rescue.yml for localhost

TASK [debug] *****************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "fail_hint": [
        "Sorry, but something went wrong!",
        "Please check the troubleshooting guide.",
        "https://trailofbits.github.io/algo/troubleshooting.html"
    ]
}

TASK [Fail the installation] *************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed as requested from task"}

PLAY RECAP *******************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=31   changed=6    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=1    rescued=1    ignored=0   

(.env) 

[xrubioj]

The issue seems to be with Python 3.11+. The azure package used is quite old. It depends on ansible-collections, which got support for Python 3.11 in v1.15.0 https://github.com/ansible-collections/azure/releases. I tried to update the dependency to ansible 7.7.0, but given the change is a major version (from current 6.1.0) I got lots of problems.

My workaround has been to use Python 3.10 (which happened to be in my system) by replacing python3 with python3.10 in the installation commands:

python3.10 -m pip install --user --upgrade virtualenv

and:

python3.10 -m virtualenv --python="$(command -v python3.10)" .env &&
 source .env/bin/activate &&
 python3.10 -m pip install -U pip virtualenv &&
 python3.10 -m pip install -r requirements.txt