# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fix venv scan timeout on busy Windows hosts

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a hardcoded scan timeout that is too short for busy Windows machines, causing the desktop update preflight venv scan to fail. The fix prevents the timeout from prematurely killing the scan and surfacing a misleading generic error.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #99674. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #99674 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #75460: Windows: Desktop update button always aborts on busy machines. Venv-blocker preflight scan needs >15 s but SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS kills it at 15 s, and the timeout surfaces as a generic probe failure

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#99674: fix(desktop): prevent venv scan timeout on busy Windows hosts (salvage #75570)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/venv-blocker-scan.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/venv-blocker-scan.ts`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_venv_health.py`
- **#75570: fix(desktop): prevent venv scan timeout on busy Windows hosts**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#99674`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #99674 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-31`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`