[Bug]: stop commands dont work

[theAnuragMishra]

I have done the following

• I have searched the existing issues
• If possible, I've reproduced the issue using the 'main' branch of this project

Steps to reproduce

1. Install container with homebrew
   brew install container
2. start container
   container system start
3. set build.rosetta to false
   container system property set build.rosetta false
4. follow the official tutorial to build and run a web server.
5. try to stop container system.
   container system stop
   It hangs here until i ctrl c.
   Not sure if this happens with everyone though.

Current behavior

commands like container system stop and container stop --all keep hanging until i ctrl c.
i just cant stop specific or all of the containers or the entire container system.

Expected behavior

container system stop should stop the container service.
container stop --all should stop all running containers.

Environment

- OS: macOS 26.1
- Xcode: i dont hv Xcode installed
- Container: 0.7.1

Relevant log output

N/A

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[Montana]

Sometimes container system stop hangs because there’s still something attached (shell, dev server, etc.) in the Linux VM.

Try:

container system status
container list

If anything is still listed as running, try stopping that first:

container stop <name>

If that also hangs, open a second terminal and look at the processes:

ps aux | grep container
ps aux | grep qemu

If you see a container-*-linux qemu process still alive while container system stop hangs, that’s a good clue it’s stuck waiting for that VM to exit.

[theAnuragMishra]

@Montana
the output of container system stats looks like:

applicaition data root: {some address path}
application install root: {address of container binary ig}
container-apiserver version: 0.7.1
container-apiserver commit: unspecified

which to me looks like just gives the details of container service itself , so it shouldn't stop me from stopping the service

container list shows a container named buildkit in the running state.
when container system stop kept hanging, i thought this might be the reason. so i tried container stop --all and container stop buildkit but all of these commands kept hanging until i ctrl c.