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omarchy update -y hangs on the orphaned-packages prompt
Reported by PixelatedContinuum · filed Aug 28, 2026 · open at source
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- 1 · What is claimed?
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- 2 · What does it affect?
- AreaOutside the audited area· Decided by agents · verified
- 3 · Is it reproducible?
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- 4 · What remains unclear?
- Not validated yet: no claims, no reproducer.
- 5 · What happens next?
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Original report
omarchy update -y blocks indefinitely at Remove N orphaned package(s)?. The package upgrade itself completes; the run then stops at the orphan step and waits forever.
-y sets OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED=1, documented in omarchy-update as "a promise not to ask anything. Steps that would need an answer report and move on instead of waiting on a prompt nobody is here to give."
Cause
omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs guards on the TTY only:
if [[ ! -t 0 || ! -t 1 ]]; then
echo "${#orphans[@]} orphaned package(s) found. Re-run omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs in a terminal to review/remove them."
echo
exit 0
fi
if ! gum confirm --default=false "Remove ${#orphans[@]} orphaned package(s)?"; thenThat guard is correct when the script is called directly, but omarchy-update re-execs itself under script(1) to capture the transcript (omarchy-update:12):
exec env OMARCHY_UPDATE_LOGGED=1 script -qefc "$script_command" "/tmp/omarchy-update.log"script allocates a pseudo-TTY, so -t 0 and -t 1 are true regardless of how the update was invoked. The guard never fires, and gum confirm prompts into a PTY nobody is attached to.
$ bash -c '[[ -t 0 && -t 1 ]] && echo TTY || echo no-TTY' < /dev/null
no-TTY
$ script -qefc 'bash -c "[[ -t 0 && -t 1 ]] && echo TTY || echo no-TTY"' /dev/null < /dev/null
TTYSuggested fix
omarchy-update-system-pkgs-when-conflicted:74 already has the pattern:
if [[ ${OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED:-} == 1 || ! -t 0 || ! -t 2 ]]; thenAdding the same clause to omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs would fix it:
if [[ ${OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED:-} == 1 || ! -t 0 || ! -t 1 ]]; thenomarchy-update-restart has the same shape (a bare gum confirm with no guard). It only prompts on a kernel change or a reboot-required marker so it is hit less often, but -y would block there too.
Environment
- omarchy 4.0.1-1
- kernel 7.1.9-arch1-2
View raw text
`omarchy update -y` blocks indefinitely at `Remove N orphaned package(s)?`. The package upgrade itself completes; the run then stops at the orphan step and waits forever.
`-y` sets `OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED=1`, documented in `omarchy-update` as "a promise not to ask anything. Steps that would need an answer report and move on instead of waiting on a prompt nobody is here to give."
## Cause
`omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs` guards on the TTY only:
```bash
if [[ ! -t 0 || ! -t 1 ]]; then
echo "${#orphans[@]} orphaned package(s) found. Re-run omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs in a terminal to review/remove them."
echo
exit 0
fi
if ! gum confirm --default=false "Remove ${#orphans[@]} orphaned package(s)?"; then
```
That guard is correct when the script is called directly, but `omarchy-update` re-execs itself under `script(1)` to capture the transcript (`omarchy-update:12`):
```bash
exec env OMARCHY_UPDATE_LOGGED=1 script -qefc "$script_command" "/tmp/omarchy-update.log"
```
`script` allocates a pseudo-TTY, so `-t 0` and `-t 1` are true regardless of how the update was invoked. The guard never fires, and `gum confirm` prompts into a PTY nobody is attached to.
```console
$ bash -c '[[ -t 0 && -t 1 ]] && echo TTY || echo no-TTY' < /dev/null
no-TTY
$ script -qefc 'bash -c "[[ -t 0 && -t 1 ]] && echo TTY || echo no-TTY"' /dev/null < /dev/null
TTY
```
## Suggested fix
`omarchy-update-system-pkgs-when-conflicted:74` already has the pattern:
```bash
if [[ ${OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED:-} == 1 || ! -t 0 || ! -t 2 ]]; then
```
Adding the same clause to `omarchy-update-orphan-pkgs` would fix it:
```bash
if [[ ${OMARCHY_UPDATE_UNATTENDED:-} == 1 || ! -t 0 || ! -t 1 ]]; then
```
`omarchy-update-restart` has the same shape (a bare `gum confirm` with no guard). It only prompts on a kernel change or a `reboot-required` marker so it is hit less often, but `-y` would block there too.
## Environment
- omarchy 4.0.1-1
- kernel 7.1.9-arch1-2
Validation
Not checked yet. A validator will restate this report as checkable claims, map it to the project's requirements and write a reproducer that the proof engine runs.
Linked
- Fixed bypr/12419· confirmed
- Fixed bypr/9511· confirmed
Decision
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- Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-09 09:47 UTC