From a7292697636bca9b3a43830d4b335b2d9c18a334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maplewheels <njainanan@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 22:21:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added gcthread cleanup on failure.

---
 .../SharedSource/LuaCs/_Services/PluginManagementService.cs   | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/SharedSource/LuaCs/_Services/PluginManagementService.cs b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/SharedSource/LuaCs/_Services/PluginManagementService.cs
index a2d01d327..af431b789 100644
--- a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/SharedSource/LuaCs/_Services/PluginManagementService.cs
+++ b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/SharedSource/LuaCs/_Services/PluginManagementService.cs
@@ -1009,7 +1009,9 @@ public class PluginManagementService : IAssemblyManagementService
         }
         catch (TimeoutException te)
         {
-            _logger.LogError($"{nameof(RunGC)}: The GC task thread has timed out.");   
+            _logger.LogError($"{nameof(RunGC)}: The GC task thread has timed out.");  
+            gcThread.Interrupt();
+            gcThread.Join();
         }
 
         if (logResults)