# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron recovery for live but deadlocked workers

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs address a scenario where a cron job's claim is held by a worker process that is alive but deadlocked (e.g. stuck in futex_wait), preventing subsequent runs. The work involves detecting, warning about, and reclaiming such stuck claims using wall-clock or progress-based guards.

## TL;DR

- 5 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #117185. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117185 (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-117185`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.40`: 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

- #115692: Dead-owner cron recovery cannot clear a claim held by a live-but-deadlocked worker (futex_wait), blocking every subsequent run

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117185: Cron reclaims a live-but-deadlocked worker's claim once it outlives the derived stale bound (#115692, salvage #116549 + #115696)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`; implication `superseded`
  - files: `cron/constants.py`, `cron/executions.py`, `cron/jobs.py`, `cron/scheduler.py`, `tests/cron/test_dead_owner_claim_reclaim.py`, `tests/cron/test_stale_running_recovery.py`, `tools/cronjob_tools.py`
- **#115696: fix(cron): warn on stuck live-owned claims without reaping**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `2d0867695d`, `#117185`
- **#116253: fix(cron): reclaim live workers that stop making progress**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#117185`
- **#116549: fix(cron): wall-clock stale-claim guard for live-but-deadlocked workers (#115692)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `2d0867695d`, `#117185`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117185 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.