# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Gateway recycled PID after reboot matching start ticks

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern a supervised gateway being affected when a PID is reused after a reboot and matches only on process start ticks within drift tolerance. One is a bug report and the others are fix or salvage pull requests addressing it; their titles do not establish whether any fix has been merged or works.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #133744: \[Bug\]: post-reboot PID reuse within start-tick drift tolerance wedges the supervised gateway forever

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133750: fix(gateway): reject a recycled PID that only matches start ticks**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#133744`
- **#138565: fix(gateway): a recycled PID after reboot no longer wedges the supervised gateway (#133744, salvage #133750)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#133750`
- **#138594: fix(gateway): a recycled PID after reboot no longer wedges the supervised gateway (#133744, salvage #138565)**. merged to main
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/2551334+sin5ddd@users.noreply.github.com`, `gateway/host_rendezvous.py`, `tests/gateway/test_host_rendezvous.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`