A unit is Omarchy's or the old package's by the program its ExecStart runs or the script it hands that program, not by a path appearing anywhere in the line, so a gateway that merely names ~/.openclaw in an argument is not taken over. The state directory and config overrides are cleared with the profile selectors, since Omarchy's OpenClaw is the default one. Any failure after a running service was stopped for the move names that service, a partial stop included.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Upstream's installer rewrites a loaded gateway onto the new copy but only warns when it will not start, which let the install finish with no gateway running. A service that was running before the move now has to be running after it, or the install fails and says the service is stopped; a failed seed says so too.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Removing the runtime while keeping ~/.openclaw left state that its own updates had migrated past the packaged release, and reinstalling seeded a release that refused to open it; even `openclaw update` refused. Removal now takes openclaw off PATH and leaves the runtime inside ~/.openclaw with the state, where a reinstall picks it back up; deleting ~/.openclaw still takes both.
Upstream's installer runs `gateway install --force` on any gateway it finds loaded, so the old package's gateway has to be stopped before seeding rather than after, and a stop that fails ends the run. The profile selectors are cleared for the whole command, installer included, and every refusal now comes before the package is installed.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
The first E2E run of the migration found that the new runtime cannot install its gateway service while the old package's gateway, still running from deleted files, holds the state directory, so that service is stopped first. Removal also takes the unit backups `openclaw update` leaves behind.
Codex's review found the rest: upstream's installer takes over any loaded gateway service, so a gateway running another OpenClaw, a foreign command on PATH or an openclaw shadowing it are refused before anything is set up; root is refused before --check runs the user's wrapper; --check needs the package, since --now would otherwise run pacman where no terminal can ask for a password; and moving a service clears the selectors that would aim the install at another unit.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
With an empty package list the trailing && left the helper with exit
status 1, which stopped the Steam installer before Steam was installed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With the venv active, a gateway started by hand is `python -m hermes_cli.main gateway run`: the interpreter is bare, the executable resolves outside the runtime, and no runtime path is on the command line, so the removal took it for a stranger and refused over the files it holds rather than closing it. Hermes's own package named with -m is the program.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove > AI refused whenever anything had Hermes's files open and told the user to close it and try again, and the thing open was Hermes: the agent in the terminal that choosing it as the default agent leaves running, the desktop app, a gateway. Those are the removal's to close. It now stops the gateway unit that upstream's `hermes gateway install` wrote, since that unit starts the runtime about to be deleted and would start it again the moment it was killed, then ends every process whose program lives in that runtime or in the package, and only then refuses over whatever is left, which is somebody else's: an editor on a skill, a shell sitting in ~/.hermes, a writer on the state database. Both are judged by the program, never by a later argument or by the home served, so an editor opened on a runtime file is the user's and a unit running a Hermes kept elsewhere is left alone whatever home it serves; for an interpreter the program is the script it runs, so a gateway started by hand as `python .../hermes gateway run` is found too. The refusal comes before anything is touched, so a run that stops leaves Hermes running as it was. A unit that will not stop still aborts the removal, as dropping the package would strand a live gateway on deleted code.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use the installed executable for non-root self-elevation, including calls from a development checkout or symlink.
Reported-by: Aleksej <aleksejhairov@yandex.ru>
Resolve color references iteratively and use the caller's fallback when a reference repeats. Preserve normal palette roles, color parsing and gradient first stops.
Reported-by: Aleksej <aleksejhairov@yandex.ru>
The refusals that leave a self-installed Hermes alone came before the command was replaced only for a finished runtime. An unfinished one was still bootstrapped over a git status that could not be read, since a failed status read as a clean tree, and a half-built app beside it, or an edit the Linux runtime patch could not land on, was found only after the user's command had been saved aside and replaced and main switched. All three are asked first now, in both states, so a run that is going to stop leaves the launcher, the checkout and ~/.local/bin as they were.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hermes is only ever installed through the app. Choosing it as the default agent used to stand aside for a hermes that worked but came from somewhere else, and to refuse one that predated seeded sessions; both left the machine on a Hermes that was not the app's, which is the one Omarchy prepares for in-app updates and hands the theme to. Now --check answers only for the app's own Hermes, and --now installs the app whatever answered to hermes before, saving the previous command aside as it always did for the app path. The desktop installer no longer adds the package itself, since the shared install does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Afonso Oliveira