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Cron ticker thread resilience during startup failures

Cluster 111010. Data as of 2026-10-24 04:06 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #111079 on 14 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and pull requests address a bug where the cron scheduler daemon thread silently dies during gateway startup, causing no jobs to fire. The work focuses on keeping or respawning the ticker thread through startup recovery and marker-write failures.

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#111079 Multiplex gateway: cron ticker survives startup and is respawned, Discord-thread Kanban subs deliver under profile_routes, secondary-profile skills dispatch (#111010, #110919, #110695; salvage #111034, #110928, #110698)

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files: cron/scheduler_provider.py, cron/scheduler_thread.py, gateway/kanban_watchers_notifier.py, gateway/run.py, hermes_cli/kanban.py, hermes_cli/kanban_db_notify.py, hermes_cli/kanban_parser.py, tests/cron/test_ticker_startup_survival.py, tests/gateway/test_kanban_routed_transport.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_notify.py, tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py, tui_gateway/methods_tools.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · superseded by another PR 1

#111034 fix(cron): keep the ticker thread alive through startup recovery and marker writes · merged via another change → 23ef640, a8b7af8, #111079
#111182 Cron ticker thread survives startup recovery and marker-write failures (#111010, salvage #111034) · superseded by another PR → 8fce4ba, 45b4220, #111034

Closed issues · 1

Closed#111010[Bug]: Cron scheduler daemon thread silently dies on gateway startup — no jobs fire

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Merged PRs: #111079
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 2 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 14 Sep 2026

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