Fall back to paramiko if the smart detection fails to run ssh

Fixes #11695

lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py

@@ -407,10 +407,13 @@ class TaskExecutor:
                 conn_type = "paramiko"
             else:
                 # see if SSH can support ControlPersist if not use paramiko
+                try:
                     cmd = subprocess.Popen(['ssh','-o','ControlPersist'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
                     (out, err) = cmd.communicate()
                     if "Bad configuration option" in err:
                         conn_type = "paramiko"
+                except OSError:
+                    conn_type = "paramiko"
 
         connection = connection_loader.get(conn_type, self._play_context, self._new_stdin)
         if not connection: