# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dashboard respawn errors logged incorrectly in receipts

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #109300: fix(update): stop failed dashboard restores from reading as success

These issues and PRs concern a bug where a dashboard respawn that ends in errors is misreported as \`'restarted'\` or \`'success'\` in update receipts, because the outcome-matching logic cannot express respawn \`"failed"\` states. Work focuses on correcting how failing respawns are recorded and restoring manual dashboards after a PM takeover.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #126149. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #126149 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-126149`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #109290: \[Bug\]: update receipt records a failed dashboard respawn as "restarted" — match_runtime_outcomes cannot express respawn failure

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#126149: fix(update): bring a manual dashboard back after the PM takeover, and book a failed respawn as failed**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/main_dashboard.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_maint.py`, `hermes_cli/update_inventory.py`, `tests/e2e/core/upgrade/handoff/_handoff.py`, `tests/e2e/core/upgrade/handoff/_scenario.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_old_updater_takeover.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_restart_plan_reconciliation.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`
- **#109298: fix(update): record a failed dashboard respawn as "failed" in the receipt**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#126149`
- **#109300: fix(update): stop failed dashboard restores from reading as success**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `partial_fix`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#109298`, `#109290`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_maint.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_zip.py`, `hermes_cli/update_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_cmd_update.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_pending.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_stale_dashboard.py`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #126149 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-28`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`