# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Dashboard update actions failing in SSH remote backend

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern Dashboard 'Update now' actions failing with a ModuleNotFoundError when using an SSH remote backend, related to the interpreter or venv environment used to spawn detached processes.

## 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 #95482. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #95482 (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: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-95482`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #90026: Dashboard "Update now" always fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml' when the desktop app uses an SSH remote backend

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#95482: fix(dashboard): remote-backend Update actions no longer die on a bare interpreter (#90026, salvage #90030)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_dashboard_spawn_executable.py`
- **#90030: fix(dashboard): spawn detached actions from the install's venv interpreter**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `19fde8a450debe89056aaaff4f3f435af77fc0b7`, `#95482`, `#90026`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #95482 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-26`.
- Subsystem: `dashboard`