Laravel 11 + Octane (RoadRunner) hangs on auth:sanctum route when exception occurs

I'm using Laravel 11 with Octane (RoadRunner) and noticed different behavior between authenticated and normal routes.

public function test(Request $request)

{

    $user = ['name' => 'test', 'username' => 'test123'];

    $boom = $user['name']['user'];

    return $user;

}

Case 1 – With auth:sanctum

Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->post('project/test', [ProjectController::class, 'test']); Request hangs for ~1 minute Finally returns 500 No error message, nothing logged

Looks like the RR worker freezes

Case 2 – Without sanctum Route::post('project/test', [ProjectController::class, 'test']); Immediate 500 Error message: "Cannot access offset of type string on string"