Systemd restart timeout handling during updates
Cluster 104740. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #104887 on 7 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #104887. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #104887. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These issues and PRs address a problem where systemd restarts during updates fail because a hardcoded timeout expires before the unit's configured stop/start budget is exhausted. The work involves adjusting restart behavior to respect systemd's own timing budgets.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#104887 fix(update): slow systemd restarts no longer fail at 15 seconds (#104740, salvage #104745)
files:
contributors/emails/[redacted:email],evals/update_unit_client_budget.py,gateway/shutdown_forensics.py,hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_update_unit_client_budget.py,website/docs/developer-guide/cli-internals.md
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
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#104745 fix(update): respect systemd stop/start budgets on blunt restart · superseded by another PR →
2a980fb,6ab2245,08f2c78,#104887,#104740
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#104740hermes update: blunt systemctl restart client times out before the unit stop/start budget
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- Merged PRs
- #104887
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 7 Sep 2026