Openclaw not responding

[buoyant depot]

• What you’re trying to do (goal + expected behaviour)
  Goal: OpenClaw Telegram bot should respond to messages in our group and DMs.
  Expected: Bot replies within a few seconds.

  • What happened instead (exact error text)
    Bot stopped replying. Gateway shows Telegram polling conflict and LLM auth failures.

  • What you ran / clicked (command(s), config snippet, etc.)
    Commands:
    openclaw channels status --probe
    openclaw logs --limit 300 --plain
    journalctl --user -u openclaw-gateway.service -n 200 --no-pager

  • Your environment (OS, install method, versions)
    OS: NixOS (linux)
    OpenClaw CLI: 2026.1.29
    Gateway: systemd user service ⁨openclaw-gateway.service⁩
    Telegram mode: polling

  • Any relevant logs (paste the smallest useful chunk)
    2026-01-30T22:20:47.776Z error [telegram] getUpdates conflict: Call to 'getUpdates' failed! (409: Conflict: terminated by other
    getUpdates request; make sure that only one bot instance is running)
    2026-01-30T22:25:19.698Z error [diagnostic] lane task error: lane=main ... FailoverError: HTTP 401: The API Key appears to be
    invalid or may have expired.

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[buoyant depot]

Nevermind it's working again.