Woovie

I just had this issue today too. I used Lae’zel’s knock out. In my game, his journal entry updated immediately to dead despite 1HP. My current guess based on the flavor text for knockout saying it recovers after long rest, is only playable characters can be woken up. I considered trying to heal him, then punch him awake? At the end of the day, I couldn’t figure out how to save him either. I suspect there’s dialog maybe if you go in peacefully. I went to the top and worked my way down violently.

that’s described on the webpage

strace the process and see if it attempts deletion