# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dashboard gateway restart failing on system-scope installs

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where the dashboard's gateway restart button always fails on system-scope installations because the spawned CLI process lacks root privileges. The members cover the problem report and proposed fixes involving privilege elevation for system-scope gateway lifecycle actions.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111388. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111388 (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-111388`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #110820: Dashboard: gateway restart button always fails on system-scope installs (spawned CLI refuses as non-root)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111388: fix(dashboard): Restart Gateway works on system-scope installs (#110820, salvage #110827)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/web_server_gateway.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_system_gateway_elevation.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/web-dashboard.md`
- **#110827: fix(dashboard): elevate system-scope gateway lifecycle actions (#110820)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#111388`, `#110820`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111388 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.