# The ansible process abruptly stops running

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-ansible-process-abruptly-stops-running/19819>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-ansible-process-abruptly-stops-running/19819 "2015-11-20T17:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Nunes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@Ivan\_Nunes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ivan_Nunes)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-ansible-process-abruptly-stops-running/19819/1 "2015-11-20T17:57:23Z")

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Hello,

I have a “playbook” that performs tasks on 15 servers. But sometimes the process simply does not stop running. The process is abruptly stopped.

The playbook runs the night shift by cron. I have no idea how to debug this problem. The ansible logs does not help much. Sometimes the log is stopped in the current task.

**Processes on the host machine:**

sudo ps aux |grep -i ansible

> ansible 639 0.0 0.0 4448 800 ? Ss Nov19 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/run\_ansible.sh pdv.yml cod  
> ansible 640 0.0 0.1 12432 3052 ? S Nov19 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/run\_ansible.sh pdv.yml cod  
> ansible 650 0.0 1.3 97936 26756 ? S Nov19 0:03 python /usr/bin/ansible-playbook -i hosts.cod -l pdvcod pdv.yml --extra-vars shutdown=True  
> root 1782 0.1 0.3 105632 6400 ? Ss 14:52 0:00 sshd: ansible [priv]  
> ansible 1834 0.0 0.1 105632 3248 ? S 14:52 0:00 sshd: ansible@pts/1  
> ansible 1835 0.5 0.2 22604 5300 pts/1 Ss 14:52 0:00 -bash  
> ansible 1858 0.0 0.0 11724 1672 pts/1 S+ 14:53 0:00 grep --color=auto -i ansible  
> ansible 14575 0.0 0.1 44584 3448 ? Ss Nov19 0:02 ssh: /home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-172.16.84.77-22-ansible [mux]  
> ansible 21564 0.0 1.2 802440 25384 ? Sl Nov19 0:00 python /usr/bin/ansible-playbook -i hosts.cod -l pdvcod pdv.yml --extra-vars shutdown=True  
> ansible 21572 0.0 1.1 97648 22948 ? S Nov19 0:18 python /usr/bin/ansible-playbook -i hosts.cod -l pdvcod pdv.yml --extra-vars shutdown=True  
> ansible 21573 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21575 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21577 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21578 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21580 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21581 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov19 0:00 [python]   
> ansible 21640 0.0 0.0 12768 1876 ? S Nov19 0:00 sshpass -d4 ssh -C -tt -v -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 172.16.84.77 /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”‘"’’  
> ansible 21641 0.0 0.2 44016 4752 pts/5 Ss+ Nov19 0:00 ssh -C -tt -v -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath=“/home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r” -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 172.16.84.77 /bin/sh -c ‘sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”’“‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”‘"’’  
> root 32588 0.0 0.3 105632 6448 ? Ss 11:52 0:00 sshd: ansible [priv]  
> ansible 32640 0.0 0.1 105768 3840 ? S 11:52 0:00 sshd: ansible@pts/0

**Processes on client servers:**

sudo ps aux |grep -i ansible

> root 6338 0.0 0.3 10040 3304 ? Ss Nov19 0:01 sshd: ansible [priv]  
> ansible 6343 0.0 0.2 10180 2224 ? S Nov19 0:08 sshd: ansible@pts/0  
> ansible 7131 0.0 0.0 2232 496 pts/0 Ss+ Nov19 0:00 /bin/sh -c sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p "[sudo via ansible, key=dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c ‘echo BECOME-SUCCESS-dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’  
> root 7133 0.0 0.1 5732 1656 pts/0 S+ Nov19 0:00 sudo -H -S -p [sudo via ansible, key=dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv] password: -u root /bin/sh -c echo BECOME-SUCCESS-dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1  
> root 7134 0.0 0.0 2232 288 pts/0 S+ Nov19 0:00 /bin/sh -c echo BECOME-SUCCESS-dpdtgnihdmtnmcoyihilkcsgroyhwvrv; LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 LC\_CTYPE=en\_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command; rm -rf /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1  
> root 7135 0.0 0.6 12544 6084 pts/0 S+ Nov19 0:09 /usr/bin/python /home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1447979713.35-99473851710552/command

ansible-playbook 1.9.2

Best regards.