OpenClaw Setup Errors Usually Aren’t Software Bugs: The Environment Checks That Fix Most Failures
Most OpenClaw setup failures come from deployment conditions, not from OpenClaw itself. In practice, the repeat offenders are a too-old Node.js runtime, npm permission mistakes, broken config state, occupied port 18789, and invalid API or channel tokens. If you treat the problem as an application bug first, you usually lose time on the wrong layer….
