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vagrant hound
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Getting this error when messaging my bot:

Embedded agent failed before reply: session file locked (timeout 10000ms): pid=663 /Users/clawd/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions/0483ef4d-b8f1-44ba-afd0-a36f5402cac4.jsonl.lock

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# vagrant hound Getting this error when messaging my bot: Embedded agent failed before reply: s...

This is a stale lock file from a crashed or killed agent process. The lock wasn't cleaned up properly.

Fix: Delete the lock file

rm /Users/clawd/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions/0483ef4d-b8f1-44ba-afd0-a36f5402cac4.jsonl.lock

Or from your terminal:

rm ~/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions/*/*.jsonl.lock

To prevent this in the future:

  • Don't kill agent processes with Ctrl+C during message processing
  • If using clawdbot gateway restart, it handles cleanup properly