Bug 1 (high): replace fixed sleep 1 with caller-PID polling in both
kickstart and start-after-exit handoff modes. The helper now waits until
kill -0 $caller_pid fails before issuing launchctl kickstart -k.
Bug 2 (medium): gate enable+bootstrap fallback on isLaunchctlNotLoaded().
Only attempt re-registration when kickstart -k fails because the job is
absent; all other kickstart failures now re-throw the original error.
Follows up on 3c0fd3dffe.
Fixes#43311, #43406, #43035, #43049
On macOS, launchctl bootout permanently unloads the LaunchAgent plist.
Even with KeepAlive: true, launchd cannot respawn a service whose plist
has been removed from its registry. This left users with a dead gateway
requiring manual 'openclaw gateway install' to recover.
Affected trigger paths:
- openclaw gateway restart from an agent session (#43311)
- SIGTERM on config reload (#43406)
- Gateway self-restart via SIGTERM (#43035)
- Hot reload on channel config change (#43049)
Switch restartLaunchAgent() to launchctl kickstart -k, which force-kills
and restarts the service without unloading the plist. When the restart
originates from inside the launchd-managed process tree, delegate to a
new detached handoff helper (launchd-restart-handoff.ts) to avoid the
caller being killed mid-command. Self-restart paths in process-respawn.ts
now schedule the detached start-after-exit handoff before exiting instead
of relying on exit/KeepAlive timing.
Fixes#43311, #43406, #43035, #43049
The repair/recovery path had the same missing `enable` guard as
`restartLaunchAgent`. If launchd persists a "disabled" state after a
previous `bootout`, the `bootstrap` call in `repairLaunchAgentBootstrap`
fails silently, leaving the gateway unloaded in the recovery flow.
Add the same `enable` guard before `bootstrap` that was already applied
to `installLaunchAgent` and (in this PR) `restartLaunchAgent`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
restartLaunchAgent was missing the launchctl enable call that
installLaunchAgent already performs. launchd can persist a "disabled"
state after bootout, causing bootstrap to silently fail and leaving the
gateway unloaded until a manual reinstall.
Fixes#39211
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After a successful launchctl kickstart, the stdout.write() for the
status message may fail with EPIPE if the receiving end has already
closed. Catch and ignore EPIPE specifically; re-throw other errors.
Closes#14234
Co-authored-by: Echo Ito <echoito@MacBook-Air.local>
When a launchd service is uninstalled via bootout, macOS marks it as
disabled in /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/disabled.*.plist. This persists
across reboots and plist recreation. Future bootstrap calls fail with
error 5 (I/O error) because the service is still marked disabled.
Fix: Call 'launchctl enable' before 'launchctl bootstrap' to clear the
disabled state, matching the fix already applied to the macOS Swift app
in GatewayLaunchAgentManager.swift.
Related: #306
