sfdx force:* hangs when there's an error (no exit code returned)

Summary

When there’s an error in any of the force:* commands, process hangs forever without returning an exit code.

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Run any force:* command forcing an error (E.g. sfdx force:org:list wrongparam or sfdx force:org:list --json wrongparam).

Expected result

Process exits returning a (negative) exit code.

Actual result

Process hangs forever, doesn’t return an exit code.

Additional information

sfdx force:org:list wrongparam

sfdx force:org:list --json wrongparam

SFDX CLI Version(to find the version of the CLI engine run sfdx --version): sfdx-cli/7.18.0-ee5dc8194c win32-x64 node-v10.15.3

SFDX plugin Version(to find the version of the CLI plugin run sfdx plugins --core):

@oclif/plugin-commands 1.2.2 (core)
@oclif/plugin-help 2.2.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-not-found 1.2.2 (core)
@oclif/plugin-plugins 1.7.8 (core)
@oclif/plugin-update 1.3.9 (core)
@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 1.7.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-which 1.0.3 (core)
@salesforce/sfdx-trust 3.0.5 (core)
analytics 1.2.0 (core)
generator 1.1.0 (core)
salesforcedx 46.8.0 (core)
├─ force-language-services 46.12.0 (core)
└─ salesforce-alm 46.11.0 (core)

sfdx-cli 7.18.0 (core)

OS and version: Windows 10

[BobSeu]

Thanks for the temporary solution! I was running into this and it was getting pretty frustrating!

[bcattaneo]

Hello. It did for me as well, thank you. I’m closing this issue now.