MSYS2's installation annoyingly requires pacman.exe termination

[StephanTLavavej]

MSYS2's installation process, as described by my README.md, has become very annoying. One part will disappear (the update-core step) when the base archive is updated, but that won't fix the major new annoyance.

Specifically, when MSYS2 must be recycled, sometimes pacman.exe needs to be terminated manually.

It would be great if MSYS2 could be fixed somehow to not require manual termination of processes. Having to red-X the window repeatedly is tolerable, but no more.

[mmicko]

pacman -Sy
pacman -S bash pacman msys2-runtime --noconfirm --needed
pacman -Su --noconfirm

We use these steps when doing upgrades. In cas something is installed in 2nd step, you need to restart msys2 shell

[StephanTLavavej]

Yeah, but when you restart the shell, is pacman.exe still running? This is new behavior (it didn't previously happen).

[StephanTLavavej]

I just checked, and --noconfirm causes the initial yes/no prompt to be skipped (which is nice) but it also causes the final

warning: terminate MSYS2 without returning to shell and check for updates again
warning: for example close your terminal window instead of calling exit

to not wait for input. Instead, it returns to the shell, which seems unwise. pacman.exe terminates and nothing appears to go wrong after red-Xing the window, but I don't think I want to directly disobey MSYS2's warning, and their wiki doesn't suggest --noconfirm.

[StephanTLavavej]

I haven't seen this happen with the 20161025 build, but maybe that's because pacman hasn't been updated since then.

[StephanTLavavej]

Right now, it appears that a gibberish-named process needs to be terminated, which is actually worse than needing to terminate pacman.exe.

[StephanTLavavej]

Right now, I'm not observing either pacman.exe or the gibberish-named process lingering. However, the "Terminal" hangs after the first invocation of pacman -Syuu. After everything is updated, Task Manager shows "MSYS2 terminal" running, which leads me to suspect that the terminal is being patched and that's why it's hanging.

[StephanTLavavej]

With the 20170918 build, the lingering pacman.exe and hanging Terminal are gone, but the gibberish-named process is back.

[StephanTLavavej]

The 2021-07-25 build appears to behave properly.