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Cron jobs longer than 60 seconds are marked 'Interrupted by shutdown' even though they succeeded

Cron jobs whose delivery takes more than about a minute are recorded as failed with 'Interrupted by shutdown before terminal completion', though the work finished.

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NousResearch/hermes-agent

Difficulty
Easy
Time
~5 min
Steps
1
Fixed in
v2026.9.14
Last checked

Verified fix: PR #109310 merged on . Fixed in v2026.9.14 (first stable release containing the merge commit). Last checked .

Symptom

Cron jobs whose delivery takes more than about a minute are recorded as failed with 'Interrupted by shutdown before terminal completion', though the work finished.

Evidence what you'll see

  • Nothing actually shut down
  • The job's work (for example a backup) completed
  • Also reported as 'Fire claim ownership lost'

Cause

The claim heartbeat tried to renew through the same lock the job's own run thread was holding, timed out, and the timeout was read as losing ownership.

Fix steps

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Verify the fix worked

  • Run a cron job that takes longer than 60 seconds and confirm it's recorded as succeeded.

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