# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows WAL lock files blocking restart or deletion

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #64983: Windows: 5 Hermes.exe processes + stale WAL locks prevent session deletion

These issues and fixes concern stale WAL and lock files on Windows that prevent session deletion or restart after unclean shutdowns. A proposed fix involves forcing DELETE journal mode to avoid WAL-related corruption on Windows.

## TL;DR

- 2 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix found: no merged or attempted fix PR is on record for this cluster.
- **Recommended:** if this matches your symptom, consider adding to the existing issue(s) below rather than opening a new one.

## 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 (`LLM_ONLY`): no structural link between members; the grouping rests entirely on an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Read the members yourself before treating them as one problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.36`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #64983: Windows: 5 Hermes.exe processes + stale WAL locks prevent session deletion

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #54622: Windows: stale lock/WAL files after unclean shutdown (reboot) prevent restart

## Fix status

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