diff --git a/Package.resolved b/Package.resolved
index 9e87893..e61a63f 100644
--- a/Package.resolved
+++ b/Package.resolved
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
       "kind" : "remoteSourceControl",
       "location" : "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa",
       "state" : {
-        "revision" : "ac224c437a3070ffe34460137ac8761eddaf2852",
-        "version" : "8.3.3"
+        "revision" : "d277532e1c8af813981ba01f591b15bbdd735615",
+        "version" : "8.8.0"
       }
     },
     {
diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 611766d..fc65808 100644
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ let package = Package(
     .package(url: "https://github.com/antlr/antlr4", branch: "dev"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-atomics.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.0.0")),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/nicklockwood/SwiftFormat", from: "0.50.6"),
-    .package(url: "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa", from: "8.3.3"),
+    .package(url: "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa", from: "8.8.0"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/cfilipov/TextTable", branch: "master"),
     .package(url: "https://github.com/sersoft-gmbh/swift-sysctl.git", from: "1.0.0"),
   ],
diff --git a/Sources/tart/PIDLock.swift b/Sources/tart/PIDLock.swift
index f65c417..bfe8812 100644
--- a/Sources/tart/PIDLock.swift
+++ b/Sources/tart/PIDLock.swift
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ class PIDLock {
   init(lockURL: URL) throws {
     url = lockURL
     fd = open(lockURL.path, O_RDWR)
+    if fd == -1 {
+      let details = Errno(rawValue: CInt(errno))
+
+      throw RuntimeError.PIDLockFailed("failed to open lock file \(url): \(details)")
+    }
   }
 
   deinit {
diff --git a/Sources/tart/VMDirectory.swift b/Sources/tart/VMDirectory.swift
index 4abf572..acaa663 100644
--- a/Sources/tart/VMDirectory.swift
+++ b/Sources/tart/VMDirectory.swift
@@ -27,7 +27,16 @@ struct VMDirectory: Prunable {
   }
 
   func running() throws -> Bool {
-    try PIDLock(lockURL: configURL).pid() != 0
+    // The most common reason why PIDLock() instantiation fails is a race with "tart delete" (ENOENT),
+    // which is fine to report as "not running".
+    //
+    // The other reasons are unlikely and the cost of getting a false positive is way less than
+    // the cost of crashing with an exception when calling "tart list" on a busy machine, for example.
+    guard let lock = try? PIDLock(lockURL: configURL) else {
+      return false
+    }
+
+    return try lock.pid() != 0
   }
 
   static func temporary() throws -> VMDirectory {