[DGX Station][Install] NemoClaw sandbox not ready in 180 seconds

### Description

Followed [DGX Station playbook](https://build.nvidia.com/station/nemoclaw/instructions) with Qwen3.6 35B model.

The sandbox didn't get ready in 180 seconds at `Onboarding` stage with logs:

[3/3] Onboarding
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────

  Detected container runtime: docker
[INFO]  Running nemoclaw onboard…
[INFO]  Found an interrupted onboarding session — resuming it.
  [non-interactive] Agent: OpenClaw

  NemoClaw Onboarding
  (non-interactive mode)
  (resume mode)
  ===================

  [1/8] Preflight checks
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [resume] Skipping preflight (cached)
  ✓ Docker CDI GPU support detected (/var/run/cdi/nvidia.yaml)
  [resume] Continuing GPU passthrough from the saved onboarding session.
  [resume] Recorded gateway state is unavailable; recreating it.

  [2/8] Starting OpenShell gateway
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ✓ Reusing existing Docker-driver gateway process (PID 1365397)

  [3/8] Configuring inference (NIM)
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [non-interactive] Provider: vllm
  ✓ Using existing vLLM on localhost:8000
  Detected model: Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
  Responses API available — OpenClaw will use openai-responses.
  ℹ Using chat completions API (tool-call-parser requires /v1/chat/completions)

  [4/8] Setting up inference provider
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [resume] Skipping inference (vllm-local / Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B)

  [5/8] Messaging channels
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [non-interactive] No messaging tokens configured. Skipping.

  [6/8] Creating sandbox
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Direct sandbox GPU enabled; allowing only /proc task comm writes.
  Creating sandbox 'my-assistant' (this takes a few minutes on first run)...
  Pinning base image to sha256:1fb69ddbe730...
  Building sandbox image...
  Building image openshell/sandbox-from:1778604708 from /tmp/nemoclaw-build-ZiLuJu/D...
  Step 1/63 : ARG BASE_IMAGE=ghcr.io/nvidia/nemoclaw/sandbox-base@sha256:1fb69ddbe73...
  Step 2/63 : FROM node:22-trixie-slim@sha256:2d9f5c76c8f4dd36e8f253bee5d828a83a6c09...
  Step 3/63 : ENV NPM_CONFIG_AUDIT=false     NPM_CONFIG_FUND=false     NPM_CONFIG_UP...
  Step 4/63 : COPY nemoclaw/package.json nemoclaw/package-lock.json nemoclaw/tsconfi...
  Step 5/63 : COPY nemoclaw/src/ /opt/nemoclaw/src/
  Step 6/63 : WORKDIR /opt/nemoclaw
  Step 7/63 : RUN npm ci && npm run build
  Step 8/63 : FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
  Step 9/63 : RUN set -eu;     apt-mark manual procps e2fsprogs 2>/dev/null || true;...
  Step 10/63 : COPY --from=builder /opt/nemoclaw/dist/ /opt/nemoclaw/dist/
  Step 11/63 : COPY nemoclaw/openclaw.plugin.json /opt/nemoclaw/
  Step 12/63 : COPY nemoclaw/package.json nemoclaw/package-lock.json /opt/nemoclaw/
  Step 13/63 : COPY nemoclaw-blueprint/ /opt/nemoclaw-blueprint/
  Step 14/63 : WORKDIR /opt/nemoclaw
  Step 15/63 : RUN npm ci --omit=dev
  Step 16/63 : RUN set -eu;     MIN_VER=$(grep -m 1 'min_openclaw_version' /opt/nemo...
  Step 17/63 : COPY scripts/rcf_patch.py /usr/local/lib/nemoclaw/rcf_patch.py
  Step 18/63 : RUN set -eu;     OC_DIST=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/openclaw/dist;  ...
  Step 19/63 : RUN mkdir -p /sandbox/.nemoclaw/blueprints/0.1.0     && cp -r /opt/ne...
  Step 20/63 : COPY scripts/lib/sandbox-init.sh /usr/local/lib/nemoclaw/sandbox-init.sh
  Step 21/63 : COPY scripts/nemoclaw-start.sh /usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-start
  Step 22/63 : COPY nemoclaw-blueprint/scripts/*.js /usr/local/lib/nemoclaw/preloads/
  Step 23/63 : COPY scripts/codex-acp-wrapper.sh /usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-codex-acp
  Step 24/63 : COPY scripts/generate-openclaw-config.py /usr/local/lib/nemoclaw/gene...
  Step 25/63 : COPY nemoclaw-blueprint/openclaw-plugins/ /usr/local/share/nemoclaw/o...
  Step 26/63 : RUN chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-start /usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-c...
  Step 27/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
  Step 28/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_PROVIDER_KEY=inference
  Step 29/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_PRIMARY_MODEL_REF=inference/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
  Step 30/63 : ARG CHAT_UI_URL=http://127.0.0.1:18789
  Step 31/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_INFERENCE_BASE_URL=https://inference.local/v1
  Step 32/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_INFERENCE_API=openai-completions
  Step 33/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_CONTEXT_WINDOW=131072
  Step 34/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_MAX_TOKENS=4096
  Step 35/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_REASONING=false
  Step 36/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_INFERENCE_INPUTS=text
  Step 37/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_AGENT_TIMEOUT=600
  Step 38/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_AGENT_HEARTBEAT_EVERY=
  Step 39/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_INFERENCE_COMPAT_B64=e30=
  Step 40/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_MESSAGING_CHANNELS_B64=W10=
  Step 41/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_MESSAGING_ALLOWED_IDS_B64=e30=
  Step 42/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_DISCORD_GUILDS_B64=e30=
  Step 43/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_TELEGRAM_CONFIG_B64=e30=
  Step 44/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_DISABLE_DEVICE_AUTH=1
  Step 45/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_BUILD_ID=1778604708443
  Step 46/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_PROXY_HOST=10.200.0.1
  Step 47/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_PROXY_PORT=3128
  Step 48/63 : ARG NEMOCLAW_WEB_SEARCH_ENABLED=0
  Step 49/63 : ENV NEMOCLAW_MODEL=${NEMOCLAW_MODEL}     NEMOCLAW_PROVIDER_KEY=${NEMO...
  Step 50/63 : WORKDIR /sandbox
  Step 51/63 : USER sandbox
  Step 52/63 : RUN python3 /usr/local/lib/nemoclaw/generate-openclaw-config.py
  Step 53/63 : RUN (openclaw doctor --fix > /dev/null 2>&1 || true)     && (openclaw...
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  Step 54/63 : RUN python3 -c "import json, os; path = os.path.expanduser('~/.opencl...
  Step 55/63 : USER root
  Step 56/63 : RUN set -eu;     config_dir=/sandbox/.openclaw;     data_dir=/sandbox...
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  Step 57/63 : RUN if id gateway >/dev/null 2>&1 && id sandbox >/dev/null 2>&1; then...
  Step 58/63 : RUN chown -R sandbox:sandbox /sandbox/.openclaw     && chmod -R g+rwX...
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  Step 59/63 : RUN if ! grep -q "/tmp/nemoclaw-proxy-env.sh" /etc/profile.d/nemoclaw...
  Step 60/63 : RUN sha256sum /sandbox/.openclaw/openclaw.json > /sandbox/.openclaw/....
  Step 61/63 : RUN chown root:root /sandbox/.nemoclaw     && chmod 1755 /sandbox/.ne...
  Step 62/63 : ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-start"]
  Step 63/63 : CMD ["/bin/bash"]
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  Create stream exited with code 1 after sandbox was created.
  Checking whether the sandbox reaches Ready state...
  Waiting for sandbox to become ready...
✓ Deleted sandbox my-assistant

  Sandbox 'my-assistant' was created but did not become ready within 180s.
  The orphaned sandbox has been removed — you can safely retry.


### Reproduction Steps

On DGX Station, ran command `NEMOCLAW_EXPERIMENTAL=1 \
NEMOCLAW_NON_INTERACTIVE=1 \
NEMOCLAW_ACCEPT_THIRD_PARTY_SOFTWARE=1 \
NEMOCLAW_SANDBOX_NAME=my-assistant \
NEMOCLAW_PROVIDER=vllm \
NEMOCLAW_MODEL="nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4" \
NEMOCLAW_LOCAL_INFERENCE_TIMEOUT=300 \
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh)"
`

### Environment

DGX Station

### Debug Output

```shell

```

### Logs

```shell

```

### Checklist

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- [x] I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate

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[DGX Station][Install] NemoClaw sandbox not ready in 180 seconds #3416

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[DGX Station][Install] NemoClaw sandbox not ready in 180 seconds #3416

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NemoClaw Onboarding
(non-interactive mode)
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