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When exiting the game (either by clicking on exit in the main menu, alt-F4 in the main menu, or restarting due to mod changes) the window will close like normal, but the actual process doesn't exit (staying at ~20-30MB RAM usage). When changing mods the zombie process will block the restarted factorio process until the zombie is terminated (it will then launch properly).

This happens almost every single time I exit factorio, the process exited normally once or twice but I've been unable to figure out why. This has actually been happening to me for quite a while (probably at least far back at 0.17), but I only now got around to submitting a report.

I've included my log file.

Thanks for the report however we have no way to reproduce this issue. I've seen this issue with a handfull of people over time but nobody has found a concrete reason it happens. Some have found software they have on their computers causing it but never has it been something in our control.

As best I can suggestion:

* Try disabling anti-virus
* Try repair-installing steam
* Try the standalone version of the game to see if steam is causing it

There's nothing we can do. The last line of code we execute before returning from main() is the last line in the log file: "Goodbye" - it signals all of our code has finished running and it's now up to the operating system to terminate the process. That's not happening so it's outside of our control.