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[hermes][onboard] NemoClaw loses memory mid-way and tries to create OpenClaw sandbox #3645

@oparoz

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@oparoz

Description

I wanted to create a new Hermes sandbox and mid-way, it started to give me strange errors and luckily aborted because the build failed.

Reproduction Steps

  1. run nemohermes onboard
  2. answer a few questions

Environment

Hardware: GB10
OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
OpenShell 0.0.42
NemoClaw 0.0.44
Hermes Agent 2026.5.16

Debug Output

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[6/8] Creating sandbox
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Using Hermes Agent base image: ghcr.io/nvidia/nemoclaw/hermes-sandbox-base:latest
  Using Hermes Agent Dockerfile: /opt/apps/NemoClaw/agents/hermes/Dockerfile
  Docker-driver GPU patch active; allowing /proc writes required by Docker GPU initialization.
✓ Created provider hermesallthethings-telegram-bridge
  Creating sandbox 'hermesallthethings' (this takes a few minutes on first run)...
  Warning: OpenClaw sandbox base image ghcr.io/nvidia/nemoclaw/sandbox-base:latest has glibc 2.36; OpenShell sandbox supervisor requires glibc >= 2.39.
  Building OpenClaw sandbox base image locally because no compatible published base image was found.
  This is a one-time step and can take several minutes.
Dockerfile.base:55
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  54 |     
  55 | >>> RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
  56 | >>>         python3=3.11.2-1+b1 \
  57 | >>>         python3-pip=23.0.1+dfsg-1 \
  58 | >>>         python3-venv=3.11.2-1+b1 \
  59 | >>>         curl=7.88.1-10+deb12u14 \
  60 | >>>         git=1:2.39.5-0+deb12u3 \
  61 | >>>         gnupg=2.2.40-1.1+deb12u2 \
  62 | >>>         ca-certificates=20230311+deb12u1 \
  63 | >>>         iproute2=6.1.0-3 \
  64 | >>>         iptables=1.8.9-2 \
  65 | >>>         libcap2-bin=1:2.66-4+deb12u2+b2 \
  66 | >>>         procps=2:4.0.2-3 \
  67 | >>>         openssh-sftp-server=1:9.2p1-2+deb12u9 \
  68 | >>>     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
  69 |     
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ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends         python3=3.11.2-1+b1         python3-pip=23.0.1+dfsg-1         python3-venv=3.11.2-1+b1         curl=7.88.1-10+deb12u14         git=1:2.39.5-0+deb12u3         gnupg=2.2.40-1.1+deb12u2         ca-certificates=20230311+deb12u1         iproute2=6.1.0-3         iptables=1.8.9-2         libcap2-bin=1:2.66-4+deb12u2+b2         procps=2:4.0.2-3         openssh-sftp-server=1:9.2p1-2+deb12u9     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*" did not complete successfully: exit code: 100
  Failed to build OpenClaw sandbox base image (exit 1)
  Warning: could not pull base image from registry; using cached :latest.
  Building sandbox image...
  Building image openshell/sandbox-from:1778935686 from /tmp/nemoclaw-build-5hf1cy/Dockerfile
  Step 1/48 : ARG BASE_IMAGE=ghcr.io/nvidia/nemoclaw/hermes-sandbox-base:latest

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