Pressing Ctrl-C while pkg is extracting/installing packages sometimes doesn't stop pkg

[yurivict]

I pressed Ctrl-C in the middle and it kept going extracting and installing packages in the background while the main process has returned. Another instance of 'pkg' process kept running until it was killed manually.

Usually this doesn't happen and pkg cleans up fine after Ctrl-C, but it somehow happened once. There is some escape path that exists.

[yurivict]

Version 1.17.5 FreeBSD 13.1

[0mp]

It's been happening to me for a couple of years now as well.

[nastonen]

Does this happen during the fetching phase?

[0mp]

Does this happen during the fetching phase?

AFAIR, it happened to me both in the fetching phase and the installation phase.

[nastonen]

I thought it was just me. I was working on root privilege issue recently in pkg and addressed this exact 'bug' here: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2022-July/000376.html I had to implement a signal handler to terminate the fread() explicitly. Not sure why it won't stop when it receives SIGINT.

[bapt]

I confirm the bug and I am perfecly aware of it, just haven't had time yet to dive into it

[avg-I]

Just want to add that this has just happened to me (for the first time ever). pkg 1.18.4

[mohd-akram]

This is still happening as of pkg 1.20.6. Happened while it was fetching a pkg - I pressed Ctrl-C, it returned me to the shell, but seemed to remain running in the background, strangely.

[grahamperrin]

Duplicate of a 2021 issue?

• #1956