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Stale state.db lock warning and WAL edge cases

Cluster 108031 · gateway. Data as of

1 open item. Fix merged in #108082 on 11 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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Known?
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A fix was merged to main in PR #108082. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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0 issues and 1 PR.

A bug caused the gateway to display a lock warning for state.db even after the lock had already cleared, alongside related work addressing WAL error conditions and stale lock banner behavior.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#108036fix(gateway): do not warn about a session db lock that already cleared

Fixes on record

Merged to main. A stamp counts the issues a fix is linked to.

  • #108082 state.db no longer wedges on a healthy WAL: OpenZFS/close() false DeletedWalGenerationError, unconfirmed-WAL read pool, transient read IOERR, stale lock banner (#107401 #105567 #86515 #100871 #108031, salvage #107411 #105578 #105711 #106958)

    merged to main

    files: agent/turn_explainers.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[email protected], gateway/run_notifications.py, hermes_state.py, hermes_state_dbfile.py, hermes_state_errors.py, hermes_state_readpool.py, hermes_state_wal.py, tests/gateway/test_session_db_warning_recheck.py, tests/hermes_state/test_deleted_wal_generation_guard.py, tests/hermes_state/test_read_path_transient_ioerr.py, tests/hermes_state/test_wal_active_confirmed.py, tests/run_agent/test_turn_completion_explainer.py, tests/test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py

Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#108031[Bug]: gateway broadcasts a state.db lock warning after the lock already cleared
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item 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.

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Subsystem
gateway
Merged PRs
#108082
Closed issues
1
Attempts
0 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked
11 Sep 2026

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