diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/nxos_linkagg_bugfix_2.5.6.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_linkagg_bugfix_2.5.6.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d84e381463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/nxos_linkagg_bugfix_2.5.6.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Fix nxos_linkagg (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41550).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/network/nxos/nxos_linkagg.py b/lib/ansible/modules/network/nxos/nxos_linkagg.py
index f36ff090ccc..f3f47a316aa 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/network/nxos/nxos_linkagg.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/network/nxos/nxos_linkagg.py
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ def map_config_to_obj(module):
 
     try:
         channels = output['TABLE_channel']['ROW_channel']
-    except KeyError:
+    except (TypeError, KeyError):
         return objs
 
     if channels: