Nx cli crashes randomly on all commands

[emanual4real]

Current Behavior

Lint, build, test, serve, all these commands will randomly crash when you try to run them. The terminal will freeze with some random characters. If you close the terminal, the process is still running taking up 5% CPU.

Expected Behavior

Lint, build, test, server commands will run the first time and will properly close when exited.

GitHub Repo

No response

Steps to Reproduce

Internal company repo, cannot share.

Nx Report

NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 18.1.2
@nx/storybook      : 18.1.2
@nrwl/tao          : 18.1.2
@nx/web            : 18.1.2
@nx/webpack        : 18.1.2
typescript         : 5.3.3
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Community plugins:
@ngrx/effects        : 17.0.1
@ngrx/router-store   : 17.0.1
@ngrx/schematics     : 17.0.1
@ngrx/store          : 17.0.1
@ngrx/store-devtools : 17.0.1
@storybook/angular   : 8.0.0
ngx-bootstrap        : 12.0.0

Failure Logs

PS C:\Users\exh11\workspace\GroupPlanManagement\apps\ui> npm run bta:serve

> ui@0.0.0 bta:serve
> nx serve bta      


> nx run bta:serve:local

^[[9;1R

Package Manager Version

NPM 8.19.3

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

Node v18.13.0

This issue started happening only after our recent upgrade. We upgraded from Angular 15 to Angular 17 as well as upgrading our nx version. I thought it might be related to extensions, so I opened VS Code with all extensions disabled but the issue would still occur.

I just figured out that if you press "enter" when it freezes, it will continue the process and you can cancel it.

[fischeversenker]

Slightly different versions, same random behaviour:

Nx report:

Node   : 20.12.1
OS     : win32-x64
npm    : 10.5.0

nx                 : 18.2.2
@nx/js             : 18.2.2
@nx/jest           : 18.2.2
@nx/linter         : 18.2.2
@nx/eslint         : 18.2.2
@nx/workspace      : 18.2.2
@nx/angular        : 18.2.2
@nx/cypress        : 18.2.2
@nx/devkit         : 18.2.2
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 18.2.2
@nx/node           : 18.2.2
@nx/plugin         : 18.2.2
@nrwl/tao          : 18.2.2
@nx/web            : 18.2.2
@nx/webpack        : 18.2.2
typescript         : 5.4.3
---------------------------------------
Community plugins:
@some/proprietary-plugin : 17.4.0
@some/proprietary-plugin : 39.1.1
@aposin/ng-aquila        : 17.4.0
@compodoc/compodoc       : 1.1.19
@testing-library/angular : 15.2.0
---------------------------------------
Local workspace plugins:
         @some/proprietary-plugin

Additional notes:

• I noticed that I only get the ANSI escape sequence (e.g. ^[[7;1R, ^[[9;1R) in VSCode's integrated terminal. Outside of VSCode, the process freezes without that sequence.
• Looking at the shell snippets in the issue description, OP reported this with PowerShell. I can reproduce this also with Git bash.
• This is hard to reproduce because it's so random, but I'm fairly confident it doesn't happen on Linux (WSL Ubuntu).

[JulianMa]

Edit: After a few hours the issue returned, so its unlikely that this was the cause.. :(

I had the same Issue and this might fix it for you:
Have you, by any chance, changed your default Terminal in your windows developer settings?

I changed it some time ago from the now default (win-11) Windows-Terminal to the legacy Windows-ConsoleHost, because i ran into Issues with colors in another unrelated application.

When i changed it back to the now default Windows-Terminal, the ANSI issues disapeared.
Just go to: Privacy & Security > For developers and select Windows Terminal:

Still, this should not happend at all. Maybe there should be a warning, when using the legacy console host?

[alljinx]

Same here, with "^[[55;1R".

OS     : win32-x64
npm    : 10.5.0

nx                 : 18.2.2
@nx/js             : 18.2.2
@nx/jest           : 18.2.2
@nx/linter         : 18.2.2
@nx/eslint         : 18.2.2
@nx/workspace      : 18.2.2
@nx/angular        : 18.2.2
@nx/cypress        : 18.2.2
@nx/devkit         : 18.2.2
@nx/esbuild        : 18.2.2
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 18.2.2
@nx/express        : 18.2.2
@nx/node           : 18.2.2
@nx/plugin         : 18.2.2
@nrwl/tao          : 18.2.2
@nx/web            : 18.2.2
@nx/webpack        : 18.2.2
typescript         : 5.4.3
---------------------------------------
Community plugins:
@compodoc/compodoc : 1.1.23
angular-calendar   : 0.31.0
ng-mocks           : 14.12.1
---------------------------------------
Local workspace plugins:
         @jdm/plg-node-packager
         @jdm/plg-elc```

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This is a duplicate of #22358. We are investigating the issue. Please follow there for updates.

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