fix(state): serialize state.db schema surgery across processes

[ernst-bablick]

Fixes #69603.

Problem

repair_state_db_schema() runs PRAGMA writable_schema=ON + sqlite_master surgery + VACUUM on a private connection. The only guard around it is _repair_attempt_lock, a threading.Lock whose docstring claims it "serialises concurrent web_server / gateway opens" — but a threading lock covers threads inside one interpreter, not processes.

A normal host runs four independent processes against the same state.db:

• hermes-gateway.service
• the Desktop app's own hermes serve backend (it spawns one per launch — it is not a thin client)
• interactive CLI sessions
• the TUI slash worker

When two of them hit a malformed DB, both enter the critical section and each runs the full surgery while the other is mid-rewrite. Observed on my host as a repair/re-corrupt cascade — the DB is repaired, then re-corrupts minutes later, repeatedly (18:03, 22:05, 22:17 the same evening), each cycle logging:

state.db write failed with an FTS-corruption error (database disk image is malformed)
FTS indexes rebuilt in place (2); retrying the failed write
gateway.session: state.db routing save failed: database disk image is malformed

Fix

1. Cross-process flock around the destructive path. An advisory lock on a sidecar file next to state.db, so it covers every process on the host regardless of interpreter. Under the lock, the existing _db_opens_cleanly() check becomes a double-check: a queued process finds the DB already healthy and returns already_healthy instead of re-running surgery on a freshly repaired DB.

2. Bump the schema cookie after direct sqlite_master edits. Ordinary DDL bumps schema_version for free, and every other connection compares it before running a prepared statement — that is how they learn to drop a cached schema. Editing sqlite_master under writable_schema=ON does not bump it, so live connections in other processes kept writing messages rows through triggers into messages_fts* shadow tables the surgery had just deleted. SQLite's writable_schema documentation calls out incrementing schema_version as the required companion to such an edit.

Tests

Four new cases in tests/test_state_db_malformed_repair.py, using real child processes and a real flock (no mocking of the concurrency):

• two simultaneous repairers produce exactly one malformed-backup-* file (two on main)
• a queued process observes the repaired DB and returns already_healthy
• the schema cookie is bumped across sqlite_master surgery
• a live connection in another process is forced to reload its cached schema

All four fail on main and pass with this change. Full -k state suite: 1043 passed, 13 skipped.

Relation to #43742

#43742 makes the in-process claim loser retry rather than raise; it explicitly leaves repair_state_db_schema() unchanged and does nothing cross-process. The two are independent and compose.

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[ernst-bablick]

Full suite now run on this branch, not just the -k state subset — via the repo's own runner (scripts/run_tests.sh, the same entry point tests.yml uses):

=== Summary: 2184 files, 44664 tests passed, 3 failed (100% complete) in 261.0s (24 workers) ===

The 3 failures are host-environment artifacts, not regressions — all reproduce on main in a clean worktree:

Test	Cause
tests/tools/test_execution_flag_detection.py::test_real_binaries_execute_leading_dash_program_payload[sort-args2-{bulk}-False]	Ubuntu 26.04 ships uutils coreutils (/usr/bin/sort -> ../lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/sort, sort (uutils coreutils) 0.8.0) instead of GNU. Fails identically on main.
tests/hermes_cli/test_pip_install_detection.py::test_banner_warns_on_pip_install	Banner text wraps at the runner's terminal width, so "officially" is split. Passes on both branches with COLUMNS=80.
tests/hermes_cli/test_pip_install_detection.py::test_banner_warns_on_homebrew_install	Same width artifact.

Nothing in the run touches the state.db paths this PR changes; tests/hermes_state + tests/state are green (79 passed).

[teknium1]

Thanks for tracing this to the repair path; the current-main premise is confirmed. hermes_state.py:923-954 provides only a process-local threading.Lock, while repair_state_db_schema() still performs direct sqlite_master surgery at hermes_state.py:1326-1360 without a schema-cookie bump.

Problems

• hermes_state.py:597 fails open when the sidecar lock cannot be opened, then permits the destructive repair without cross-process serialization. The existing quarantine path instead fails closed on lock failure (hermes_state.py:1645-1657); this path needs the same safety property.
• The simultaneous-repair test does not synchronize both children at the relevant race boundary (tests/test_state_db_malformed_repair.py:726-740), so a serial scheduler can make it pass without exercising concurrent repairers.
• The schema-cookie test closes its probe before repair and opens a new connection after it (tests/test_state_db_malformed_repair.py:767-781), so it does not test the stated live-connection behavior.

Suggested changes

• Fail closed if opening/acquiring the repair lock is impossible.
• Make the concurrency and live-connection checks deterministic.

The related #71982 backup-copy race is separate, as noted in #69603 discussion. This is an automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

This must not yield True: when the lock file cannot be opened, this permits the same uncoordinated schema surgery the lock is meant to prevent. Please fail closed (yield False / return a repair error), consistent with the quarantine lock's refusal behavior on current main.

[teknium1]

This closes the only probe before repair, so the test only observes a persisted schema-version change through a fresh connection. Keep a connection alive across repair and execute a previously prepared schema-dependent operation to cover the claimed cache invalidation.