Bug 1 (high): replace fixed sleep 1 with caller-PID polling in both
kickstart and start-after-exit handoff modes. The helper now waits until
kill -0 $caller_pid fails before issuing launchctl kickstart -k.
Bug 2 (medium): gate enable+bootstrap fallback on isLaunchctlNotLoaded().
Only attempt re-registration when kickstart -k fails because the job is
absent; all other kickstart failures now re-throw the original error.
Follows up on 3c0fd3dffe.
Fixes#43311, #43406, #43035, #43049
- Remove dead 'return false' in runServiceStart (Greptile)
- Include stack trace in run-loop crash guard error log (Greptile)
- Only catch startup errors on subsequent restarts, not initial start (Codex P1)
- Add JSDoc note about env var false positive edge case (Codex P1)
When 'openclaw gateway restart' is run with an invalid config, the new
process crashes on startup due to config validation failure. On macOS,
this causes Full Disk Access (TCC) permissions to be lost because the
respawned process has a different PID.
Add getConfigValidationError() helper and pre-flight config validation
in both runServiceRestart() and runServiceStart(). If config is invalid,
abort with a clear error message instead of crashing.
The config watcher's hot-reload path already had this guard
(handleInvalidSnapshot), but the CLI restart/start commands did not.
AI-assisted (OpenClaw agent, fully tested)
Address review feedback - when --json mode is used, the drift warning
was completely suppressed. Now it's included in the warnings array
of the DaemonActionResponse so programmatic consumers can surface it.
When the gateway token in config differs from the token embedded in the
service plist/unit file, restart will not apply the new token. This can
cause silent auth failures after OAuth token switches.
Changes:
- Add checkTokenDrift() to service-audit.ts
- Call it in runServiceRestart() before restarting
- Warn user with suggestion to run 'openclaw gateway install --force'
Closes#18018
Peter Steinberger
Robin Waslander
merlin
Vincent Koc
Josh Avant
Sebastian
cpojer
Operative-001