#New here! VPS setup help — Bonjour crashing before Discord connects

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copper marlin
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Hey everyone! Just found OpenClaw yesterday and I've been absolutely
down a rabbit hole ever since. I spent all
night planning out my setup and today I finally got everything installed!

I'm running OpenClaw 2026.4.24 on a Hetzner VPS (Ubuntu 24.04) and I'm
SO close to getting my ai online in my Discord server. Everything looks
good in the logs, Claude is connected, all 7 plugins load including
Discord, the bot token is verified....but right at the moment Discord
tries to connect, the Bonjour plugin crashes with
"CIAO ANNOUNCEMENT CANCELLED" and kills the whole gateway before
Discord can finish handshaking.

I tried installing avahi-daemon and running with
--unhandled-rejections=none but Bonjour keeps crashing at the same time
Discord starts. Has anyone run into this on a VPS? Is there a way to
disable Bonjour or work around it?

Really grateful for any help, TIA!

lapis seal
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Search. There is a thread in help for this.

unborn cedar
low bisonBOT
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Found it — in #help forum:

“openclaw restart loop after update”
#1497895091870892083 message

The workaround there was:

openclaw plugins disable bonjour
openclaw gateway restart

Docs also mention the VPS/deployment-style option:

OPENCLAW_DISABLE_BONJOUR=1