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Issue: When installing a list of programs using Chocolatey, it will sometimes pause during the download or install and won't continue until I return to the CMD window and tap a button.

For example, I was just installing Audacity, left it to finish on its own, went away for 15+ minutes, and when I came back it hadn't finished the download. I tapped enter and it immediately said the download finished and started the install.

My background: This is my first day using Chocolatey. I have some experience using apt-get on Ubuntu.

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In short it is a bug somewhere. It's rarely seen, so it's hard to know exactly what causes it. Chocolatey does have an execution timeout, so it will eventually fail the package. You can even control that timeout.

If you are able to get it to repeatedly do this, please follow up with an issue at https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/new and provide the detailed output from choco install pkgname --debug --verbose. We'd like to determine what causes this issue.

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This might be actually an issue with the Windows Command Prompt itself and not with Chocolatey. I noticed similar behaviour with other scripts as well and found this. It seems to be related to the QuickEdit mode or in particular switching into "selection" mode unintentionally, which will pause execution.

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  • Thanks for the info! I'm sure this is it, but I don't run Windows anymore so can't confirm.
    – wjandrea
    Sep 5, 2018 at 22:03

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