diff --git a/plugins/actions/validate.py b/plugins/actions/validate.py
index 620358eae..2f76619fd 100644
--- a/plugins/actions/validate.py
+++ b/plugins/actions/validate.py
@@ -96,10 +96,15 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                         notario.validate(host_vars, lvm_bluestore_scenario, defined_keys=True)
 
         except Invalid as error:
-            display.vvvv("Notario Failure: %s" % str(error))
-            msg = "[{}] Validation failed for variable: {}".format(host, error.path[0])
-            display.error(msg)
-            reason = "[{}] Reason: {}".format(host, error.reason)
+            display.vvv("Notario Failure: %s" % str(error))
+            msg = ""
+            if error.path:
+                msg = "[{}] Validation failed for variable: {}".format(host, error.path[0])
+                display.error(msg)
+                reason = "[{}] Reason: {}".format(host, error.reason)
+            else:
+                reason = "[{}] Reason: {}".format(host, str(error))
+            given = ""
             try:
                 if "schema is missing" not in error.message:
                     for i in range(0, len(error.path)):
@@ -108,7 +113,8 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                                     host, error.path[0])
                         else:
                             given = given + ": {}".format(error.path[i])
-                    display.error(given)
+                    if given:
+                        display.error(given)
                 else:
                     given = ""
                     reason = "[{}] Reason: {}".format(host, error.message)
@@ -116,8 +122,9 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
                 given = ""
             display.error(reason)
             result['failed'] = mode == 'strict'
-            result['msg'] = "\n".join([msg, reason, given])
-            result['stderr_lines'] = msg.split('\n')
+            result['msg'] = "\n".join([s for s in (msg, reason, given) if len(s) > 0])
+            result['stderr_lines'] = result['msg'].split('\n')
+
 
         return result