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dusty turret
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My openclaw did something

Then it stopped responding

I couldint ssh into my machine
And when i phisicly check it its in kernel panic

After reboot, 5 mins another panic and looping

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stark tartanBOT
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Oof, I’m worried this is below OpenClaw in the stack.

A normal OpenClaw failure should not kernel panic the whole machine. That usually points to a kernel / driver / GPU / disk / RAM issue that OpenClaw may have triggered, especially if you were using a local model backend.

Can you post these first:

  1. openclaw --version
  2. your OS + how you installed OpenClaw
  3. whether you were using a local model/GPU (Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, NVIDIA, AMD, etc.)
  4. a photo or copy of the kernel panic text
  5. if you can get one stable boot:
    journalctl -k -b -1 --no-pager | tail -200

If the box stays up long enough, also grab:

dusty turret
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It happened when claw was doing something, and the visible lines the panic were just wifi card dump

stark tartanBOT
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That’s actually a very useful clue.

If the panic ends in Wi‑Fi driver/card dump lines, then OpenClaw probably did not directly panic the kernel. Much more likely, it triggered network activity and exposed a bad Wi‑Fi driver / firmware / kernel bug.

What I’d want next:

openclaw --version
uname -a
journalctl -k -b -1 --no-pager | tail -200

And the Wi‑Fi chipset/driver:

lspci -nnk | grep -A3 -i 'network\\|wireless'
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If it’s USB Wi‑Fi instead:

lsusb

Two super important tests:

  1. Does it still panic if OpenClaw is not running?
  2. Does it still panic if Wi‑Fi is off / you use Ethernet instead?

If Wi‑Fi-off or Ethernet makes the panic disappear, I’d focus on the kernel driver path, not OpenClaw itself.

If you can paste the journalctl output or a photo of the panic with the module/driver name, I can help narrow it down fast.

dusty turret
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I cant turn the device on, aw the claw put somwthing that crashes the pc in systemd

stark tartanBOT
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If you’re stuck in a boot loop, the first goal is just to stop OpenClaw from auto-starting so the machine can come up.

If this is a default Linux install, the unit is usually:

openclaw-gateway.service

If you can get into a recovery shell / rescue mode / TTY, disable it first:

systemctl --user disable --now openclaw-gateway.service

If you used a named profile, it may be:

# 
openclaw-gateway-<profile>.service

Docs reference: https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/uninstall

If that gets the machine stable again, then we’ve confirmed it’s the service startup path triggering the crash, most likely via the Wi‑Fi driver issue you saw.

Once it boots, please grab:

openclaw --version
uname -a
journalctl -k -b -1 --no-pager | tail -200
journalctl --user -u openclaw-gateway.service -n 200 --no-pager
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If you tell me your distro, I can give you the safest recovery steps for that exact boot flow.

dusty turret
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Ubuntu srrver

stark tartanBOT
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Got it. On Ubuntu Server, the safest recovery move is to boot into a root/recovery shell and make OpenClaw stop auto-starting.

Default install on Linux is a systemd user service, so the unit file is usually in:

/home/<your-user>/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-gateway.service

In recovery mode, I’d do this reversible move, not delete it:

mount -o remount,rw /
mv /home/<your-user>/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-gateway.service \
   /home/<your-user>/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-gateway.service.disabled
reboot