# What I supposed to do with a long time no response Ansible playbook process?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-i-supposed-to-do-with-a-long-time-no-response-ansible-playbook-process/22024>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-i-supposed-to-do-with-a-long-time-no-response-ansible-playbook-process/22024 "2016-07-15T03:44:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tivon\_zhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tivon\_zhang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tivon_zhang)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-i-supposed-to-do-with-a-long-time-no-response-ansible-playbook-process/22024/1 "2016-07-15T03:44:06Z")

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Hi guys,

I just start to use Ansible to provision my environment, the playbook yml is from my partner and it’s undoubtedly workable.  
Unfortunately, I have been trapped here for 14 hours with no more response:

TASK [common : Install NodeJS 4.2.4] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

I guess I should kill the current process and add some log option to restart it. My questions:

1. Is there a way to check the current running ansible’s status?
2. I guess ansible has already downloaded some files of nodejs, should I found and delete them for next clear installation?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jpeacock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jpeacock](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpeacock)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-i-supposed-to-do-with-a-long-time-no-response-ansible-playbook-process/22024/2 "2016-07-20T19:46:41Z")

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I’ll bet if you ran that same command in a shell yourself, it would be prompted for something (like ‘Y’).

John

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**Author:** ![rup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rup](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rup)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-i-supposed-to-do-with-a-long-time-no-response-ansible-playbook-process/22024/3 "2016-07-21T16:28:33Z")

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To find current process, run this to get PID to kill:

ps -ef|grep ansible

A command I use to watch Ansible processes as they are running is:

watch -n 3 ‘netstat -ta | egrep “:ssh +EST”’

So I can follow along with what’s being run.

Kim