#Ghost process / Respawning gateway issue on Ubuntu

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quasi dirge
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I'm experiencing an issue with the OpenClaw gateway on Ubuntu.

The Problem:
When I run openclaw gateway run, it reports already running under systemd and exits immediately.

What I've tried:

systemctl stop openclaw / openclaw-gateway -> both return "unit not loaded".

pkill -9 openclaw-gateway -> the process is killed but respawns instantly with a new PID.

ps aux shows it running as openclaw-gateway, but it's not managed by standard systemctl units.

It seems like a watchdog or an installer script is auto-restarting the gateway in the background, preventing me from running it manually with my custom config/token.

How can I permanently disable this "background" instance to gain manual control?