Running Action Plugins on Mac may result in Crashes

[jvanderaa]

When using a Mac, you may get an error output similar to this:

objc[6127]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
objc[6127]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state

When you see the ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state it is a give away to me that you are running into the issue described on the Ansible Github - ansible/ansible#65108.

The workaround for now has been to run export no_proxy='*' on the Mac, if allowed (this may be against some policies). Other workaround would be to run on a Linux system, such as a Docker container that has Ansible.

At this point, this is applicable on the qraphql_query action plugin.

[FragmentedPacket]

This is also documented here.