rustup.exe hangs on windows and can't be killed

[brson]

Another more severe issue is that rustup.exe process seem to be hanging and it cannot be killed from the Windows Task Manager. Due to this issue, I cannot remove the .cargo and .multirust directories and I have to_force_ reboote the PC to recover (using the power button).

Source.

[brson]

@retep998 suggested it could be interaction with antivirus.

[mhristache]

Not sure if this is of any help, but this is what I get when trying to kill it with taskkill:

$ tasklist.exe | grep -a rustup
rustup.exe                    1356 Console                    1      6▒480 K
rustup.exe                   11096 Console                    1      7▒072 K

C:\windows\system32>taskkill.exe /pid 1356 /f
ERROR: The process with PID 1356 could not be terminated.
Reason: There is no running instance of the task.

Regarding the antivirus, I cannot find a way to stop it as I am using a work PC and I don't have access to change the antivirus settings.

cc @retep998

[bbigras]

I have a similar problem on a Win 7 64-bit virtual machine. No anti-virus.

I'm trying to build files from the host using virtualbox's shared folder feature.

[hh9527]

I was hit by this issue. But I found that manual coping the proxy binary will make it works.

@echo off
setlocal
set dir=%~dp0
set files=cargo rustc rustdoc rust-gdb rust-lldb rls
for %%f in (%files%) do (
    del /q %dir%.\%%f.exe
    copy /y /b %dir%rustup.exe %dir%.\%%f.exe
)
endlocal

Run this .cmd file evertime after rustup updated.