# killing a play when using run\_once+delegate\_to

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/killing-a-play-when-using-run-once-delegate-to/21483>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [May 18, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/killing-a-play-when-using-run-once-delegate-to/21483 "2016-05-18T18:28:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbeardsley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sbeardsley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sbeardsley)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/killing-a-play-when-using-run-once-delegate-to/21483/1 "2016-05-18T18:28:57Z")

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My goal is to fail _all_ hosts when a run\_once, delegated task fails. In my specific case there was an ssh failure to the delegated host. I’ve simplified my playbook to the following:

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**Author:** ![sbeardsley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sbeardsley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sbeardsley)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/killing-a-play-when-using-run-once-delegate-to/21483/2 "2016-05-19T19:58:36Z")

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FWIW, this is fixed in 2.0.2.0 RC1 (thanks James!):

commit 2248b882c1c9ff79498db307938ed6f00137845b  
Author: James Cammarata

Make sure run\_once tasks also set any\_errors\_fatal so all hosts fail

Currently implemented only in the linear strategy (free strategy simply  
ignores run\_once/BYPASS\_HOST\_LOOP actions).

Fixes #14252