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openclaw gateway probe

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.5.12 (f066dd2) — Finally, a use for that always-on Mac Mini under your desk.

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Gateway Status
Reachable: no
Capability: unknown
Probe budget: 3000ms

Warning:

• No gateway answered any probe and Bonjour discovery returned no local gateways. Run openclaw gateway status --deep --require-rpc to inspect service state, config paths, listener owners, and logs; include ss -ltnp or lsof -nP -iTCP:<port> -sTCP:LISTEN for the configured port when filing a report.

Discovery (this machine)
Found 0 gateways via Bonjour (local.)
Tip: if the gateway is remote, mDNS won’t cross networks; use Wide-Area Bonjour (split DNS) or SSH tunnels.

Targets
Local loopback ws://127.0.0.1:18789
Connect: failed - connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:18789 · Capability: unknown

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That output means nothing is listening on 127.0.0.1:18789 right now, so this is earlier than auth/pairing: the gateway process is not running, crashed, or is bound somewhere else.

Since you’re on 2026.5.12, run this next on the machine that should host the gateway:

openclaw gateway status --deep --require-rpc
openclaw logs --follow
openclaw doctor

If you just want to prove the gateway can start, run it in the foreground:

openclaw gateway --port 18789 --verbose

If that works, reinstall/restart the supervised service from the same install/profile: