[SOLVED] [Bug]: After upgrading from Moltbot to Openclaw, I can't connect to the gateway. #4529
Description
Solution: See this comment
Summary
I installed Moltbot by cloning this repository and building it. Just now, after running git pull and executing ui:build and build, I ran moltbot doctor && moltbot gateway restart && moltbot health.
However, when I opened the web UI at this point, I found that I couldn't connect to the gateway. Using DevTools, I examined the interaction with WebSocket and found the following information:
{"type":"event","event":"connect.challenge","payload":{"nonce":"32f06b80-f5ff-470d-8a87-b8d91bc51a14","ts":1769763506652}} // received
{"type":"req","id":"ba0ee22b-65b8-4f25-b784-3e22a63a1d0e","method":"connect","params":{"minProtocol":3,"maxProtocol":3,"client":{"id":"openclaw-control-ui","version":"dev","platform":"Win32","mode":"webchat"},"role":"operator","scopes":["operator.admin","operator.approvals","operator.pairing"],"device":{"id":"49afa13d948de4c09ab5d057f48c78f884759657c38388c6c8d2d06b94662c50","publicKey":"TI3huAGMidUc9GMpQu_Eg0_73W0Ts0W0jfINBYHb5FI","signature":"ave71JiPNVKhdYU_nFv9TK7gHO2pUsxXMmZin6ohqao6df2JpEdRQbn--U5TsBP638lx3YJup1QvUkcjDtpcBQ","signedAt":1769763506654,"nonce":"32f06b80-f5ff-470d-8a87-b8d91bc51a14"},"caps":[],"auth":{"token":"d517521449cefe6eada25506f1da6d4af6c0e4a11809a548"},"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","locale":"en-US"}} // sent
{"type":"res","id":"ba0ee22b-65b8-4f25-b784-3e22a63a1d0e","ok":false,"error":{"code":"INVALID_REQUEST","message":"invalid connect params: at /client/id: must be equal to constant; at /client/id: must match a schema in anyOf"}} // received
Steps to reproduce
- Clone the commits when this repository was named moltbot
- Complete the build
- Git pull and rebuild it
- Restart the gateway
Expected behavior
Expected to work normally for the web UI.
Actual behavior
The web UI is not functioning properly because it cannot establish a normal connection with the gateway, and the gateway has rejected the connection.
Environment
- Clawdbot version: 2026.1.29 (openclaw)
- OS:
Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 5 18:30:46 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux - Install method (pnpm/npx/docker/etc): pnpm
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