From c5cd908c331b74c6bb1573e366cfb62b08178b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:16:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] allow for bad stdout return from make temp dir command

fixes #13359
---
 lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index fcbd1e2c21e..1ac8d79a410 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
-#
+/
 # This file is part of Ansible
 #
 # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -229,7 +229,11 @@ class ActionBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
                 output = output + u": %s" % result['stdout']
             raise AnsibleConnectionFailure(output)
 
-        rc = self._connection._shell.join_path(result['stdout'].strip(), u'').splitlines()[-1]
+        try:
+            rc = self._connection._shell.join_path(result['stdout'].strip(), u'').splitlines()[-1]
+        except IndexError:
+            # stdout was empty or just space, set to / to trigger error in next if
+            rc = '/'
 
         # Catch failure conditions, files should never be
         # written to locations in /.