json.decoder.JSONDecodeError on Install Composer Dependencies

Hello there,

I’m deploying a site on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VPS on Python 3.8.10 while on my local environment I’m still using Python 3.7.12.

Today I had to downgrade composer to 1.10.13 because Composer 2 was blocking pivvenit’s acf-pro-installer and upgrade PHP from 8.0 to 8.1 but I’m running into this error.

TASK [deploy : Install Composer dependencies] **********************************
System info:
  Ansible 2.11.12; Darwin
  Trellis version (per changelog): "Add built-in fail2ban filters"
---------------------------------------------------
MODULE FAILURE
See stdout/stderr for the exact error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 100, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 92, in _ansiballz_main
  File "<stdin>", line 40, in invoke_module
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 207, in run_module
    return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 97, in _run_module_code
    _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/tmp/ansible_composer_payload_gpayuef2/ansible_composer_payload.zip/a
nsible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/composer.py", line 310,
in <module>
  File "/tmp/ansible_composer_payload_gpayuef2/ansible_composer_payload.zip/a
nsible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/composer.py", line 256,
in main
  File "/tmp/ansible_composer_payload_gpayuef2/ansible_composer_payload.zip/a
nsible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/composer.py", line 182,
in get_available_options
  File "/tmp/ansible_composer_payload_gpayuef2/ansible_composer_payload.zip/a
nsible/module_utils/basic.py", line 1445, in from_json
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 2 column 1 (char 1)
fatal: [staging_host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stdout": "", "rc": 1}

It looks like an issue on the VPS and not on my local environment. Anyone had this issue? Thanks!

Seems like composer 1.10.13 was too outdated. I’ve upgraded it to 1.10.26 and now it went through.

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