# It's back: Timeout (XXs) waiting for privilege escalation prompt

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/its-back-timeout-xxs-waiting-for-privilege-escalation-prompt/28306>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/its-back-timeout-xxs-waiting-for-privilege-escalation-prompt/28306 "2018-08-10T07:50:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@John\_S](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_S)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/its-back-timeout-xxs-waiting-for-privilege-escalation-prompt/28306/1 "2018-08-10T07:50:19Z")

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This problem is back, and it is worse than ever in 2.6.1, from epel, on el7.5.

If I run a playbook (just one or two simple tasks) vs 50 hosts, I’ll have a dozen that fail due to timeout…

When I run the same playbook vs same hosts from server with ansible-2.4.2.0-2.el7 … it works perfectly.