# Ansible Playbook Hangs on " Wait for elasticsearch to startup "

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ansible-playbook-hangs-on-wait-for-elasticsearch-to-startup/78610>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ansible-playbook-hangs-on-wait-for-elasticsearch-to-startup/78610 "2017-03-14T22:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Traiano\_Welcome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Traiano\_Welcome](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Traiano_Welcome)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ansible-playbook-hangs-on-wait-for-elasticsearch-to-startup/78610/3 "2017-03-15T12:29:44Z")

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Found the issue here. The ansible role does not seem to enable the elasticsearch startp service in systemd. I added an ansible bloc to do this in the role definition.

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