# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Real-profile browser auth copy hangs on locked SQLite files

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members concern browsing with the real-profile setting while Chrome is running, where copying auth files (Login Data / Web Data) appears to retry SQLite busy errors without a bound. The related items describe bounding that backup, falling through to a raw copy, and cookies-only or fresh-browser fallbacks, though their outcomes are not stated.

## 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 #139245. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #139245 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #96646: \[Bug\] Real-profile browsing hangs forever while Chrome is running: unbounded SQLite busy-retry in _copy_auth_file (Login Data / Web Data)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#139245: Browser keeps working with the real-profile setting on: cookies-only copy, fresh-browser fallback (salvage #110613)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/cmaldonado80@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/browser_connect.py`, `hermes_cli/config_defaults.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_browser_connect_real_profile_snapshot_errors.py`, `tests/tools/test_browser_real_profile.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`, `tools/browser_tool_real_profile.py`, `tools/browser_tool_session.py`, `tools/browser_use_cli.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/browser.md`
- **#96659: fix(browser): bound the real-profile auth backup so a locked source falls through to raw copy**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `046094df28b`, `#139245`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #139245 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-15`.
- Subsystem: `agent`