[Bug] Gemini CLI hangs and stops responding during execution

[chadd28]

What happened?

Gemini CLI hangs and stops responding after running a prompt on my workspace. It gets stuck indefinitely and never returns output.

What did you expect to happen?

The CLI should complete the command and display results.

Client information

No response

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[chadd28]

@caretaker-agent Here are the requested details:

• Command & Prompt: gemini --debug "Find all references to handleAuth"
• Environment & Workspace: Running on Linux inside a devenv shell (Nix package manager environment).
• Versions: CLI v0.48.0, Node.js v20.11.0, OS: Linux x86_64.
• Debug Logs & Output:
  Running with --debug logs:

[DEBUG] Ripgrep is not available. Falling back to GrepTool.

Running which rg in terminal resolves to /nix/store/abc123def456-ripgrep-14.1.0/bin/rg.

It looks like isTrustedSystemPath() in packages/core/src/utils/paths.ts rejects /nix/store because it is missing from the trusted path
allowlist, causing the CLI to fall back to standard grep which hangs in large repos.