MacOS broke openclaw setup

[violet kite]

I had openclaw running with:

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Tried to install the macOS app but now I can’t reach the dashboard or chat thru telegram

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This sounds like the macOS app may have changed/rehomed the gateway LaunchAgent or CLI version, so both dashboard + Telegram would go down because the Gateway isn’t actually running/reachable.

First thing: what does this show?

openclaw --version
which openclaw
openclaw status --all
openclaw gateway status --deep

Then try the safe recovery path:

openclaw doctor
openclaw gateway install --force

openclaw gateway restart
openclaw gateway status

On macOS, also check the app-managed launchd log:

tail -n 120 /tmp/openclaw/openclaw-gateway.log

If you paste the outputs here, please redact tokens/secrets. status --all should be safe/redacted.

Useful context: the macOS app doesn’t bundle its own Gateway anymore; it expects an external openclaw CLI and manages/attaches to the per-user LaunchAgent. So if the app installed a different CLI or rewrote the service, this is likely a split-brain/version/path issue.

Docs:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/platforms/macos