# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Fleet restart pending flag false positive fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #98588: False positive 'gateways may still be serving pre-update modules' after launchd respawn

These issues and pull requests address cases where the system incorrectly reports that gateways may still be serving pre-update modules after a restart has already occurred. The work focuses on correctly discharging or skipping the fleet restart pending state when gateways are verified to be serving the expected version.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #111371. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #111371 (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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #98588: False positive 'gateways may still be serving pre-update modules' after launchd respawn

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#111371: fix(update): fleet_restart_pending settles on a verified gateway serving the pulled sha; foreign state-file writers never read as current (#111272, #110420, salvage #110426 #105417)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/back1992@users.noreply.github.com`, `hermes_cli/update_cmd_fleet.py`, `hermes_cli/update_receipt.py`, `tests/gateway/test_control_socket.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_fleet_matrix_down_state.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_fleet_restart_pending.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_update_receipt.py`
- **#98612: fix(update): skip fleet restart when gateways already match current checkout**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `8130274b37`, `#111371`, `#98588`, `#109600`
- **#105417: fix(update): discharge fleet_restart_pending when the fleet provably serves expected_sha**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `127214a66bb1`, `#111371`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #111371 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-15`.
- Subsystem: `hermes_cli`