# Playbook freezes at "getting output with communicate()"

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-freezes-at-getting-output-with-communicate/22356>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 23, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-freezes-at-getting-output-with-communicate/22356 "2016-08-23T07:54:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ahmed1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Ahmed1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahmed1)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-freezes-at-getting-output-with-communicate/22356/1 "2016-08-23T07:54:46Z")

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Hello,  
I’m using Ansible to manage configuration of a device that has a similar terminal to Cisco devices, The below playbook works fine but for every 4 or 5 times it freezes at sometimes.  
I use Ansible-Debug=1, when the playbook freezes, it does at this line:

**3385 1471938419.90376: getting output with communicate()**

**Playbook:**