if we specify full paths to the executable maybe it will work (though i don't get why we would need to do that in travis but not elsewhere)

.travis.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ before_install:
 - echo $PATH
 - id
 - sudo id
+- sudo initctl list-env
 - sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible
 - sudo apt-get -qq update
 - sudo apt-get install -y ansible

ansible/roles/brozzler-dashboard/templates/brozzler-dashboard.conf.j2

@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ setuid {{user}}
 
 console log
 
-exec gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:8881 brozzler.dashboard:app
+exec {{venv_root}}/brozzler-dashboard-ve34/bin/gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:8881 brozzler.dashboard:app

ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/templates/brozzler-worker.conf.j2

@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ stop on stopping Xvnc
 
 kill timeout 60
 
-exec nice brozzler-worker \
+exec nice {{venv_root}}/brozzler-ve34/bin/brozzler-worker \
     --rethinkdb-servers={{groups['rethinkdb'] | join(',')}} \
     --max-browsers=4

ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/templates/vnc-websock.conf.j2

@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ env PYTHONPATH={{venv_root}}/websockify-ve34/lib/python3.4/site-packages
 env PATH={{venv_root}}/websockify-ve34/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
 
 # port 8901 is hard-coded in brozzler/dashboard/static/partials/workers.html
-exec nice websockify 0.0.0.0:8901 localhost:5901
+exec nice {{venv_root}}/websockify-ve34/bin/websockify 0.0.0.0:8901 localhost:5901
 

ansible/roles/pywb/templates/pywb.conf.j2

@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ setuid {{user}}
 
 console log
 
-exec nice brozzler-wayback
+exec nice {{venv_root}}/pywb-ve34/bin/brozzler-wayback