# Single host failes on ansible-playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-host-failes-on-ansible-playbook/14809>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [March 19, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-host-failes-on-ansible-playbook/14809 "2014-03-19T20:35:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Schiebel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Frank\_Schiebel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Frank_Schiebel)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/single-host-failes-on-ansible-playbook/14809/1 "2014-03-19T20:35:15Z")

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Hello!

Im new to ansible, and have a problem which i just cannot solve:

I use some very simple playbooks to do simple tasks in clasroom management on linux clients (ubuntu).  
I.e. i use a playbook for shutting them down. Everything works fine except for one single host.  
Whenever I try to use a playbok on a list ho hosts wicht contain this host, I get an error message  
for the host about wrong UTF-8 encoding while ansible-playbook is “GATHERING INFORMATION”.

Regular ansible commands are working fine on the host, I can shut it down by executing  
ansible -i hosts r110-ws16 -a “shutdown -h now”

but not with  
ansible-playbook -i hosts -l r110-ws16 shutdown.yml

which shuts down all other hosts just fine.

I also use a playbook which runs locally (wakeonlan from the server). When this client is powered off,  
everything is fine, the host starts up like all the other hosts.  
So i figure the problem ist something that is returned from the host while gathering information.

But I have no idea how I can debug this further, any hint would be highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Frank