# Strange ansible hangs at the setup stage

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/strange-ansible-hangs-at-the-setup-stage/15943>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 14, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/strange-ansible-hangs-at-the-setup-stage/15943 "2014-08-14T05:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![fscomm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@fscomm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fscomm)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/strange-ansible-hangs-at-the-setup-stage/15943/1 "2014-08-14T05:31:25Z")

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Hello. Please advise me in the next problem. Environment:

Ansible host: CentOS 6.5 x86\_64. Rpm package ansible 1.6.6.

I created a task to disable ipv6 on target host. Let’s name this host: myhost. I created task file: disable-ipv6.yml. Contents:

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/strange-ansible-hangs-at-the-setup-stage/15943/2 "2014-08-14T12:09:18Z")

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Can you please upgrade to the latest version of Ansible and try from there? This is version 1.7.

What remote OS are you managing?

Can you run with “-c ssh -vvvv” and see if you get any particular messages from SSH debugging?