Fix: single Ctrl+C shutdown hang after image generation

[Copilot]

Summary

After any image generation, pressing Ctrl+C once caused an indefinite hang requiring a second Ctrl+C to exit, producing a KeyboardInterrupt inside threading._shutdown(). Additionally, pressing Ctrl+C during an active generation produced either an ugly RuntimeError: Event loop is closed stack trace or a C++ std::terminate() core dump.

Root cause: asyncio.to_thread() in session_queue_sqlite.py runs SQLite operations during generation using the asyncio event loop's default ThreadPoolExecutor. In Python 3.12, ThreadPoolExecutor threads have daemon=False. When KeyboardInterrupt interrupts loop.run_until_complete(server.serve()), the loop exits without being shut down — those non-daemon executor threads persist and block threading._shutdown() indefinitely. This is generation-specific because asyncio.to_thread() is never called until a queue item is processed.

invokeai/app/run_app.py

• Cancels all pending asyncio tasks (e.g. socket.io ping tasks) before closing the loop, preventing "Task was destroyed but it is pending!" warnings on shutdown.
• After ApiDependencies.shutdown(), calls loop.run_until_complete(loop.shutdown_default_executor()) then loop.close() to drain and terminate the executor's non-daemon threads before Python teardown begins.
• Adds a post-shutdown warning loop that logs (with stack traces) any non-daemon threads still alive after the executor is shut down — a safety net for unexpected threads from third-party libraries.

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    ApiDependencies.shutdown()
    # Cancel pending tasks (e.g. socket.io pings) to avoid destroyed-task warnings
    pending = [t for t in asyncio.all_tasks(loop) if not t.done()]
    for task in pending:
        task.cancel()
    if pending:
        loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*pending, return_exceptions=True))
    # Drains non-daemon ThreadPoolExecutor threads created by asyncio.to_thread()
    loop.run_until_complete(loop.shutdown_default_executor())
    loop.close()

invokeai/app/services/events/events_fastapievents.py

• Added a loop.is_closed() guard in FastAPIEventService.dispatch(). When Ctrl+C is pressed mid-generation, the shutdown code closes the event loop while the generation thread is still winding down and trying to emit status events. Events are silently dropped when the loop is already closed, preventing a RuntimeError: Event loop is closed stack trace.

invokeai/app/services/session_processor/session_processor_default.py

• DefaultSessionProcessor.stop() now sets _cancel_event in addition to _stop_event. This signals any in-progress generation (e.g. denoising) to stop at the next step boundary via CanceledException, rather than running to completion. Without this, the generation thread could still be executing CUDA operations while Python teardown begins, causing a C++ std::terminate() core dump (terminate called without an active exception).

tests/test_asyncio_shutdown.py

Four isolated subprocess tests:

1. Confirms asyncio.to_thread() leaves a non-daemon thread alive (reproduces the bug).
2. Confirms shutdown_default_executor() + loop.close() eliminates it.
3. Confirms the fix works when applied after a simulated KeyboardInterrupt.
4. Confirms that cancelling pending tasks before loop.close() suppresses the "Task was destroyed but it is pending!" warnings.

Related Issues / Discussions

QA Instructions

1. Start the server and generate at least one image.
2. Open a browser tab connected via socket.io (the normal UI).
3. Press Ctrl+C once — both after a generation completes and while a generation is actively in progress (e.g. during denoising).
4. The server should exit cleanly: no hanging, no "Task was destroyed but it is pending!" warnings, no RuntimeError: Event loop is closed stack trace, and no core dump.

Merge Plan

Checklist

• The PR has a short but descriptive title, suitable for a changelog
• Tests added / updated (if applicable)
• ❗Changes to a redux slice have a corresponding migration
• Documentation added / updated (if applicable)
• Updated What's New copy (if doing a release after this PR)

Original prompt

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<issue_title>[bug]: After generation, two keyboard interrupts needed to shut down server</issue_title>
<issue_description>### Is there an existing issue for this problem?

• I have searched the existing issues

Install method

Invoke's Launcher

Operating system

Linux

GPU vendor

Nvidia (CUDA)

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Version number

lstein/feature/elegant-shutdown branch

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What happened

The branch lstein/feature/elegant-shutdown is supposed to make it possible to shut down the server by pressing the ^C (keyboard interrupt) key just once, rather than requiring two presses.

Currently, after any generation has occurred, pressing ^C gives this message followed by an indefinite hang:

^C[2026-03-02 08:56:20,522]::[ModelInstallService]::INFO --> Installer thread 132929897526976 exiting
[2026-03-02 08:56:20,536]::[InvokeAI]::INFO --> InvokeAI shutting down...

Pressing ^C again gives a short stack trace and the server finally does exit:

^CException ignored in: <module 'threading' from '/home/lstein/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.12-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/threading.py'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lstein/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.12-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/threading.py", line 1624, in _shutdown
    lock.acquire()
KeyboardInterrupt: 

It is likely that there is a thread that is waiting on a lock. Please track this down and fix it.

What you expected to happen

One ^C should be sufficient to shut the server down cleanly.

How to reproduce the problem

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Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes [bug]: After generation, two keyboard interrupts needed to shut down server #111

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[lstein]

Shutdown no longer hangs, but I'm getting a series of warnings at the end:

^C[2026-03-02 09:40:26,173]::[ModelInstallService]::INFO --> Installer thread 139743997077184 exiting
[2026-03-02 09:40:27,177]::[InvokeAI]::INFO --> InvokeAI shutting down...
Task was destroyed but it is pending!
task: <Task pending name='Task-472' coro=<AsyncSocket._send_ping() running at /home/lstein/invokeai-lstein/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/engineio/async_socket.py:135> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[Task.task_wakeup()]>>
Task was destroyed but it is pending!
task: <Task pending name='Task-845' coro=<AsyncSocket._send_ping() running at /home/lstein/invokeai-lstein/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/engineio/async_socket.py:135> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[Task.task_wakeup()]>>
Task was destroyed but it is pending!
task: <Task pending name='Task-847' coro=<AsyncSocket._send_ping() running at /home/lstein/invokeai-lstein/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/engineio/async_socket.py:135> wait_for=<Future pending cb=[Task.task_wakeup()]>>

[Copilot]

Shutdown no longer hangs, but I'm getting a series of warnings at the end:

Fixed in 01a83c5. The warnings were caused by loop.close() destroying socket.io ping tasks that hadn't been cancelled yet. The fix cancels all pending asyncio tasks and waits for them to finish before calling shutdown_default_executor() and loop.close().

[lstein]

Great improvement. However, when I generate a keyboard interrupt when a generation is in process (e.g. during the denoising process), I get an ugly stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_processor/session_processor_default.py", line 459, in _process
    self.session_runner.run(queue_item=self._queue_item)
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_processor/session_processor_default.py", line 98, in run
    self.run_node(invocation, queue_item)
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_processor/session_processor_default.py", line 151, in run_node
    self._on_node_error(
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_processor/session_processor_default.py", line 288, in _on_node_error
    queue_item = self._services.session_queue.fail_queue_item(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_queue/session_queue_sqlite.py", line 393, in fail_queue_item
    queue_item = self._set_queue_item_status(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/session_queue/session_queue_sqlite.py", line 265, in _set_queue_item_status
    self.__invoker.services.events.emit_queue_item_status_changed(queue_item, batch_status, queue_status)
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/events/events_base.py", line 101, in emit_queue_item_status_changed
    self.dispatch(QueueItemStatusChangedEvent.build(queue_item, batch_status, queue_status))
  File "/home/lstein/Projects/InvokeAI-lstein/invokeai/app/services/events/events_fastapievents.py", line 31, in dispatch
    self._loop.call_soon_threadsafe(self._queue.put_nowait, event)
  File "/home/lstein/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.12-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 844, in call_soon_threadsafe
    self._check_closed()
  File "/home/lstein/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.12-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 545, in _check_closed
    raise RuntimeError('Event loop is closed')
RuntimeError: Event loop is closed

Could the session process catch the "Event loop is closed" event and issue a friendlier message such as "Event loop terminated; generation session aborted."

[Copilot]

Great improvement. However, when I generate a keyboard interrupt when a generation is in process (e.g. during the denoising process), I get an ugly stack trace:

Fixed in fe31ac4. Added a loop.is_closed() guard in FastAPIEventService.dispatch() — when the event loop has been closed during shutdown, events are silently dropped instead of raising RuntimeError: Event loop is closed and cascading through the session processor's error handling. The generation thread now winds down cleanly with no stack trace.

[lstein]

The last commit results in a core dump when the user interrupts a generation in mid-flight:

[2026-03-02 10:01:09,996]::[ModelManagerService]::INFO --> [MODEL CACHE] Loaded model '5e0fc394-89d3-4bce-bb7e-782413fede38:scheduler' (DDPMScheduler) onto cuda device in 0.00s. Total model size: 0.00MB, VRAM: 0.00MB (0.0%)
 20%|█████████████████████████████████▌                                                                                                                                      | 6/30 [00:02<00:08,  2.79it/s]
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[2026-03-02 10:01:12,858]::[ModelInstallService]::INFO --> Installer thread 125658999027392 exiting
[2026-03-02 10:01:12,860]::[InvokeAI]::INFO --> InvokeAI shutting down...
 27%|████████████████████████████████████████████▊                                                                                                                           | 8/30 [00:02<00:07,  2.80it/s]
terminate called without an active exception
Aborted (core dumped)

[Copilot]

The last commit results in a core dump when the user interrupts a generation in mid-flight:

Fixed in aaaf3fe. The core dump was caused by a race between CUDA denoising and Python teardown: our dispatch() guard silently dropped events instead of throwing RuntimeError, which inadvertently removed the exception cascade that was previously (and accidentally) stopping the generation thread. With the loop closed and no exception to interrupt it, the generation kept running CUDA ops while Python tore down — terminate called without an active exception.

The fix sets _cancel_event in DefaultSessionProcessor.stop(), so when shutdown is triggered the denoising step callback sees the cancel at the next step boundary and raises CanceledException. The generation thread stops its CUDA work cleanly before Python teardown begins, eliminating the core dump.