Ansible hanging on the first npm update

[an...@octonius.com]

Hi,

the first time i run this ansible task in the playbook it hangs. I have to go and ssh into the server run npm install manually and after that it works smoothly. Any workaround to get this working?

- name: install repo packages

  become: yes

  become_user: deploy

  npm: path={{ app_repo_path }} state=present

app_repo_path: /var/www/myapp

A few more details would be

ansible version - 1.9.4

The cloud I'm deploying to is Rackspace

I have tried putting different values to poll and async, but its still the same.

Is there any workaround to this? Does anybody use ansible to deploy their node apps in production(using the ansible npm module instead of shell)? If so can anybody share a bit of code to help me through?

Thanks in advance,