# NousResearch/hermes-agent · User bus adoption timing in restart recovery

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #107614: \[Bug\]: aborted-restart recovery never normalizes the user bus — false exit 1 and user-scope serve units silently skipped
- PR #107625: fix(update): adopt the user bus before spawning the fresh restart recovery child

These items concern a bug where aborted-restart recovery fails to normalize the user bus before systemd probes or spawning the recovery child, causing false exit codes and silently skipped user-scope units. The associated fixes address adopting the user bus at the correct point in the recovery sequence.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #107614: \[Bug\]: aborted-restart recovery never normalizes the user bus — false exit 1 and user-scope serve units silently skipped

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#107623: fix(update): adopt the user bus before the recovery child's systemd probes (#107614)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#107625`
- **#107625: fix(update): adopt the user bus before spawning the fresh restart recovery child**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#107623`, `#107614`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_abort_recovery.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_gateway_restart_aborted.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`