Error when using run_module() - 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

[Xiol]

Hi,

With a fresh install of 0.5.0 using pip (pip install column in a fresh virtualenv), I'm getting the error "'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'" when attempting to use run_module().

In [1]: from column import APIRunner

In [2]: ar = APIRunner()

In [3]: ar.inventory_file

In [4]: ar.run_module('localhost', remote_user=None)

...snip...

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/SSL.py in <module>()
    116 SSL_ST_ACCEPT = _lib.SSL_ST_ACCEPT
    117 SSL_ST_MASK = _lib.SSL_ST_MASK
--> 118 SSL_ST_INIT = _lib.SSL_ST_INIT
    119 SSL_ST_BEFORE = _lib.SSL_ST_BEFORE
    120 SSL_ST_OK = _lib.SSL_ST_OK

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

This seems to be down to me having an old version of PyOpenSSL installed system-wide, rather than as part of the virtualenv, and it's being imported somewhere.

Might be worth adding PyOpenSSL to your requirements.txt to avoid clashes with the system packages, if installed?

(My knowledge of how virtualenvs work and interact with system packages is limited, so this may very well be a feature rather than a bug.)

[kars7e]

HI @Xiol, what is your python version? I've never seen an issue like that, but from my experience issues related to SSL often come from outdated Python version (compiled with old openSSL)

[Xiol]

Python 2.7.12 as supplied by Ubuntu 16.04.

[vhosakot]

I saw the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT' error too and sudo pip install pyOpenSSL==16.2.0 resolved it for me!