# Ansible playbook fails on ssh in between the tasks.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-fails-on-ssh-in-between-the-tasks/19896>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 30, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-fails-on-ssh-in-between-the-tasks/19896 "2015-11-30T11:21:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vani\_Paridhyani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Vani\_Paridhyani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vani_Paridhyani)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-fails-on-ssh-in-between-the-tasks/19896/1 "2015-11-30T11:21:04Z")

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Hi!

After 5 out of 11 ansible tasks ran successfuly, my playbook failed throwing the below error:

```auto
failed: [<ip>] => {"changed": true, "rc": 1}
stderr: OpenSSH_6.2p2, OpenSSL 1.0.1k-fips 8 Jan 2015
debug1: Reading configuration data /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/config
debug1: /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 50: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4
debug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote
debug3: mux_client_request_session: entering
debug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering
debug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 20175
debug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent
debug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2
debug3: mux_client_read_packet: read header failed: Broken pipe
debug2: Received exit status from master 1
Shared connection to <ip> closed.

```

I want to know the reason of failure and I am wondering how can ssh fail all of a sudden when it worked for the previous tasks.

Thank You!