From 26ea9c4351536c6462a81c8dd0f685e11049ffaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abhijit Menon-Sen Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:10:08 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] If ssh died, it's an error, not a timeout --- lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py index fc8b9a11056..202ce854bd3 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py +++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py @@ -411,6 +411,10 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase): if not rfd: if state <= states.index('awaiting_escalation'): + # If the process has already exited, then it's not really a + # timeout; we'll let the normal error handling deal with it. + if p.poll() is not None: + break self._terminate_process(p) raise AnsibleError('Timeout (%ds) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: %s' % (timeout, stdout))