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APFS SQLite WAL incompatibility fix on macOS

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #74485 on 30 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address a conflict between APFS copy-on-write behavior and SQLite's WAL journal mode that causes disk I/O errors on macOS, with a proposed fix to detect APFS and fall 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From the close comments: superseded by another PR 2

  • #71734 fix(state): detect APFS and fall back to DELETE journal mode (#71498) · superseded by another PR → #71766
  • #71766 fix(state): detect APFS and fall back to DELETE journal mode (#71498) · superseded by another PR → 5c49cd0, #74485, #71498
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#71498fix: APFS CoW + SQLite WAL incompatibility — disk I/O errors on macOS
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30 Jul 2026

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