Description
When running a long-lived foreground command with container run, terminal resize events can produce repeated XPC signal forwarding errors on stderr:
failed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 28]
Signal 28 is SIGWINCH. The workload continues compiling, so this appears to be a CLI/terminal resize forwarding issue rather than an application failure, but it pollutes stderr during long-running builds and makes it harder to detect real build errors.
Environment
container CLI version 1.0.0 (build: release, commit: unspeci)
macOS 26.5.1 (25F80)
Darwin 25.5.0 arm64
Host hardware: Apple Silicon
Shell: zsh
container system status reports the apiserver running:
status running
apiserver.version container-apiserver version 1.0.0 (build: release, commit: unspeci)
Observed output
This happened while running a Rust build in a foreground Apple container session. The build was still making progress, then stderr repeatedly printed:
Compiling tokio v1.52.3
Compiling futures-macro v0.3.32
Compiling futures-task v0.3.32
Compiling serde_json v1.0.149
Compiling futures-util v0.3.32
Compiling pkg-config v0.3.32
failed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 28]
failed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 28]
failed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 28]
failed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 28]
Expected behavior
Terminal resize events should either:
- be forwarded successfully as
SIGWINCH, or
- be ignored without printing an internal XPC error to stderr.
The CLI should not emit repeated internal missing signal in xpc message errors during normal terminal resize handling.
Notes
A direct signal send did not reproduce the same error:
CID="$(container run --detach quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 300)"
container kill --signal WINCH "$CID"
container kill "$CID"
That suggests the issue is likely specific to the foreground CLI's terminal resize/signal forwarding path rather than generic signal delivery.
Description
When running a long-lived foreground command with
container run, terminal resize events can produce repeated XPC signal forwarding errors on stderr:Signal 28 is
SIGWINCH. The workload continues compiling, so this appears to be a CLI/terminal resize forwarding issue rather than an application failure, but it pollutes stderr during long-running builds and makes it harder to detect real build errors.Environment
container system statusreports the apiserver running:Observed output
This happened while running a Rust build in a foreground Apple container session. The build was still making progress, then stderr repeatedly printed:
Expected behavior
Terminal resize events should either:
SIGWINCH, orThe CLI should not emit repeated internal
missing signal in xpc messageerrors during normal terminal resize handling.Notes
A direct signal send did not reproduce the same error:
That suggests the issue is likely specific to the foreground CLI's terminal resize/signal forwarding path rather than generic signal delivery.