Thank you Nev, this is very interesting, but I don't want to rely on a hack like this in production unless it's sanctioned by Splunk support. ... View more

Yes, I tried that, too: no difference. With start, it hangs as well. ... View more

I'm running into the exact same issue: after upgrading a Universal Forwarder from 8.1.2 my Ansible role is issuing   bin/splunk status --no-prompt --answer-yes --accept-license to make sure Splunk won't hang later, and this command is hanging waiting for input. We do not use a container, so I don't think the issue is container-related. A workaround would be appreciated. ... View more