# error: (4, 'Interrupted system call')

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-4-interrupted-system-call/15675>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 15, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-4-interrupted-system-call/15675 "2014-07-15T12:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sampsont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@sampsont](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sampsont)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-4-interrupted-system-call/15675/1 "2014-07-15T12:15:13Z")

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I’m using the Ansible PlayBook class in my own Python program. My playbooks usually run fine but occasionally I get the error below. Can you give me any hints as to why this is happening? Googling seems to suggest that it might be related to a time-out. When it fails, it happens pretty quickly. It doesn’t seem like anything should be timing out that soon.

Any hints much appreciated!

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fatal: [plattsburgh] =\> Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 532, in \_executor  
exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 629, in \_executor\_internal  
return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 815, in \_executor\_internal\_inner  
result = handler.run(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject, complex\_args)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/action\_plugins/normal.py”, line 57, in run  
return self.runner.\_execute\_module(conn, tmp, module\_name, module\_args, inject=inject, complex\_args=complex\_args)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 411, in \_execute\_module  
tmp = self.\_make\_tmp\_path(conn)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 1020, in \_make\_tmp\_path  
result = self.\_low\_level\_exec\_command(conn, cmd, None, sudoable=False)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 948, in \_low\_level\_exec\_command  
in\_data=in\_data)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/ssh.py”, line 285, in exec\_command  
rfd, wfd, efd = select.select(rpipes, , rpipes, 1)  
error: (4, ‘Interrupted system call’)

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FATAL: no hosts matched or all hosts have already failed – aborting

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-4-interrupted-system-call/15675/2 "2014-07-15T15:35:33Z")

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Haven’t seen his.

Can you run with “-vvvv” (4 vs) and see if you get more output, and can you tell us more about what versions you are running, what OS you are running from, and what you are connecting to?