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state.db corruption from concurrent gateway writes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 102120 · gateway

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #108076. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a shared state.db corruption problem caused by multiple processes or concurrent gateway restarts writing simultaneously. Fixes involve serialization, opt-out flags, cross-process locking, and restricting which processes are permitted to write to state.db.

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  • #108076 state.db no longer gets a second writer from profile gateways, the dashboard, the lifecycle guard or doctor --fix (#102120 #107688 #102589 #107440; salvage #103489 #102682 #108012 #105428)

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], cron/lifecycle_guard.py, gateway/hosted_room_policy_checkpoint.py, gateway/hosted_rooms.py, hermes_cli/doctor_state.py, hermes_cli/web_server_lifecycle.py, hermes_state_holders.py, tests/cron/test_lifecycle_guard_live_db.py, tests/gateway/test_hosted_rooms.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_doctor_wal_holder_guard.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py, tests/state/test_fts_holder_instance_scope.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_groups_methods.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_hosted_room_service.py, tui_gateway/hosted_room_service.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1 · other 2

  • #102153 fix(gateway): serialize hosted-rooms first-open of shared state.db · other → #102120
  • #102176 hosted_rooms: add cross-process lock to prevent state.db corruption on concurrent gateway startup · other
  • #102237 fix(gateway): opt-out flag for hosted rooms worker to prevent concurrent-restart corruption (#102120) · superseded by another PR → 902ecca, #108076
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#102120hosted_room_worker corrupts shared state.db on simultaneous multi-profile gateway restart (e.g. via `hermes update`)
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gateway
Merged PRs
#108076
Closed issues
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3 PRs closed without merging
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11 Sep 2026

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