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SQLite WAL fallback handling for disk I/O errors in state database

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1 open item. Fix merged in #74485 on 30 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #74485. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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1 issue and 0 PRs.

Members appear to concern SQLite WAL journal mode handling, with several proposing that "disk I/O error" be treated as a WAL-incompatibility marker so the system falls back to DELETE journal mode. One also mentions a configurable journal_mode, and another reports state.db problems on ZFS with multiple connections.

Open issues1

  • Issue#46797fix: add "disk i/o error" to _WAL_INCOMPAT_MARKERS so stale-SHM/EIO after unclean shutdown falls back to DELETE journal mode

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  • #74485 fix(state): configurable journal_mode + WAL-refusal detection cluster (salvages #68912, #57918, #46865, #55322)

    merged to main

    files: cli-config.yaml.example, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, hermes_cli/kanban_db.py, hermes_state.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py, tests/test_hermes_state.py, tests/test_hermes_state_wal_fallback.py, tests/test_journal_mode_config.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #46967 [verified] fix: force WAL fallback to delete on disk i/o init failure · superseded by another PR → 5c49cd0, #74485
  • #55322 fix(gateway): add disk I/O error to WAL-fallback markers for ZFS · merged via another change → 5c49cd0, #74485
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#55305Hermes Agent gateway on ZFS corrupts state.db with multiple connections
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.44: the share of item 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.

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2 PRs closed without merging
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30 Jul 2026

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