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2026

How to fix the Fish shell error terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)

How to fix a Fish shell process that keeps ending with a SIGKILL forced quit error.

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I was doing some work with my Fish shell when after a while I hit a problem.

I ran the command npx prisma migrate dev and I was met with this error:

fish: 'npx prisma migrate dev' terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)

What fixed the issue for me was simply closing the terminal and starting a new Fish shell.

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