# hanging ad-hoc gather-facts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [August 24, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hanging-ad-hoc-gather-facts/31116 "2019-08-24T07:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Libor\_Nenadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47774/32.png) [@Libor\_Nenadal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Libor_Nenadal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hanging-ad-hoc-gather-facts/31116/1 "2019-08-24T07:44:13Z")
Hi, I am trying to debug playbook that keeps hanging for one machine by running ad-hoc command on that machine: ansible -i hosts -m setup -a ‘gather\_subset=!hardware’ rpi4 It hangs with following debug output: 1059 1566631954.85790: running TaskExecutor() for rpi4/TASK: setup 1059 1566631954.86076: in run() - task 10653038-cb6d-2425-0465-000000000010 1059 1566631954.86569: calling self.\_execute() 1059 1566631955.66259: trying /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/connection 1059 1566631955.85543: Loaded config def from plugin (connection/ssh) 1059 1566631955.85606: Loading Connection ‘ssh’ from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py 1059 1566631955.86001: trying /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/shell 1059 1566631955.90374: Loading ModuleDocFragment ‘shell\_common’ from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/doc\_fragments/shell\_common.py 1059 1566631955.90632: Loaded config def from plugin (shell/sh) 1059 1566631955.90912: Loading ShellModule ‘sh’ from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/shell/sh.py 1059 1566631955.91027: Loading ShellModule ‘sh’ from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/shell/sh.py (found\_in\_cache=True, class\_only=False) 1059 1566631955.93928: Loading ActionModule ‘normal’ from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/action/normal.py 1059 1566631955.94099: starting attempt loop 1059 1566631955.94138: running the handler 1059 1566631955.94551: \_low\_level\_execute\_command(): starting 1059 1566631955.94600: \_low\_level\_execute\_command(): executing: /bin/sh -c ‘echo ~pi && sleep 0’ ^C 1052 1566632196.05481: RUNNING CLEANUP 1059 1566632196.05553: WORKER HARD EXIT: [ERROR]: User interrupted execution Ansible version: ansible 2.8.3 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [u’/home/libor/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’] ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/bin/ansible python version = 2.7.15+ (default, Nov 27 2018, 23:36:35) [GCC 7.3.0] I am new to Ansible so please excuse me if I am missing something obvious but I would appreciate any hint to move this forward. I am stuck. ☹ Thank you, Libor