# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop-supervised serve restart during fleet updates

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where the desktop restart mechanism cannot restart a desktop-supervised serve process during reconciliation, causing update failures and repeated fleet_restart_pending states. The cluster includes a bug report and related fix attempts addressing this handoff problem.

## 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 #112312. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #112312 (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-112312`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #111494: \[Bug\]: the \`desktop\` restart mechanism is undischargeable — the restart phase is forbidden to restart a desktop-supervised \`serve\` while reconciliation demands it, so every Desktop-present update exits 1 and re-arms \`fleet_restart_pending\`

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#112312: fix(update): Desktop-owned serve no longer fails hermes update or holds fleet_restart_pending (#111494, supersedes #111499)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/update_abort_recovery.py`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_inventory.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_pending.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_serve_generation_recovery.py`
- **#111499: fix(update): discharge Desktop serve restart handoff**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `7c6b8c7a8d`, `#112312`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #112312 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-16`.