launchd plist reload failure handling on macOS
Cluster 12866 · hermes cli. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #109185 on 12 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #109185. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #109185. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
These members address a bug where launchd plist refresh incorrectly reports success despite launchctl failures, and introduce fixes to surface errors and retry on transient bootstrap failures.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#109185 fix(gateway): service repair no longer claims success it can't deliver (#12866, #12863; salvage #68493, #12989)
files:
hermes_cli/gateway.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_linger.py,tests/hermes_cli/test_launchd_refresh_reporting.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: other 1
- #12882 fix(gateway): surface launchctl bootstrap failures in refresh_launchd_plist_if_needed · other
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#12866[Bug]: launchd plist refresh reports success even when launchctl reload fails
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- Subsystem
- hermes cli
- Merged PRs
- #109185
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 12 Sep 2026