diff --git a/roles/odcs/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/odcs/backend/tasks/main.yml
index c677691170..42b3cb5459 100644
--- a/roles/odcs/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/odcs/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -7,14 +7,6 @@
   - packages
   - odcs
   - odcs/backend
-- name: Make sure Python fedmsg-hub isn't running.
-  service:
-    name: fedmsg-hub
-    state: stopped
-    enabled: false
-  tags:
-  - odcs
-  - odcs/backend
 - name: Make sure Python3 fedmsg-hub-3 isn't running.
   service:
     name: fedmsg-hub-3