obtuse bane
Hello, i cannot find a subject about this at all.
I ran the openclaw installation and input my anthropic key, and once it gets into chat integration, i select discord. i give it a discord channel id and it just instantly crashes with the error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')
screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/jAlUE93
im on a hetzner machine running ubuntu 22.02
im using lockdown mode aswell!
Interesting, i skip the gateway and still get the same error. TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'trim')
glad jasperBOT
That looks like a real installer bug, not you typing the channel id wrong.
I checked current source/history, and there were onboarding/setup crash fixes right after 2026.4.9, including a reading 'trim' setup crash fix and another onboarding metadata fix. So my first move would be updating before debugging the Discord id itself.
Try this:
openclaw update
openclaw doctor
openclaw gateway restart
Then rerun either:
openclaw onboard
or just the channel setup:
openclaw configure --section channels
Docs:
Good workaround if you want to unblock fast:
Also, if this is your private server, allowlisting the server ID first is enough, you do not need to start with a single channel ID.
If it still crashes after updating, please paste:
openclaw --version
openclaw status --all
openclaw logs --follow
and if it reproduces on the latest build, please file a GitHub issue with that output plus the screenshot: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues
Yeah, that makes me more confident this is an onboarding wizard bug, not a gateway/Discord runtime problem.
If it still crashes even when you skip gateway, then the failure is happening in setup flow itself. Lockdown mode also should not be the thing causing a reading 'trim' crash here.
I’d do one of these:
Best fix
openclaw update
openclaw doctor
then rerun onboarding.
Fast workaround
Skip Discord during onboarding completely, finish install, then configure it after: