# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban cards wrongly blocked by host spawn failures

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Host-level spawn refusals (such as unreachable user D-Bus) were incorrectly consuming a card's retry budget and parking it as blocked. These members address detecting and isolating that infrastructure failure so it does not count against the card.

## 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 #114886. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114886 (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-114886`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #114720: \[Bug\]: Kanban spawn-time infrastructure failure (unreachable user D-Bus) burns the card's retry budget and parks it as a bare blocked

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114886: fix(kanban): host spawn refusals no longer park cards as blocked; oneshot-unit dispatch workers survive unit exit (#114720, #113612, salvage #113624)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/kanban_db_dispatch.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_gateway_restart_handoff.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/cron.md`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#114760: fix(kanban): keep a host-level spawn refusal out of the card's retry budget**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `eb28bc1bf7e`, `#114760`, `#114720`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114886 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.