# handlers not being played

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 8, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963 "2015-12-08T14:42:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Johan\_Soderberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@Johan\_Soderberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Johan_Soderberg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963/1 "2015-12-08T14:42:13Z")

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Hi,

I have a problem where handlers not being played. I’ve narrowed it down to the following situation:

test.yml:

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963/2 "2015-12-08T14:56:51Z")

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Hi Johan, with which version of Ansible are you seeing this?

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**Author:** ![Johan\_Soderberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@Johan\_Soderberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Johan_Soderberg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963/3 "2015-12-08T15:00:58Z")

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I'm running 1.9.4 installed from the fedora epel repo.

/Johan

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**Author:** ![Johan\_Soderberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b782af/32.png) [@Johan\_Soderberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Johan_Soderberg)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handlers-not-being-played/19963/4 "2015-12-15T07:33:08Z")

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Hi James,

I’m running 1.9.4 installed from the fedora epel repo.

/Johan