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openclaw update fail

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Ran openclaw update and get this error....

name@theclaw:~$ openclaw update

Updating OpenClaw...

│
◇ ✗ Updating via package manager (251.2s)
npm error code 128
npm error An unknown git error occurred
npm error command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git
npm error git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
npm error fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm error
npm error Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm error and the repository exists.
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/schergr/.npm/_logs/2026-02-09T16_46_43_986Z-debug-0.log

Update Result: ERROR
Root: /home/schergr/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/openclaw
Reason: global update
Before: 2026.2.6-3
After: 2026.2.6-3

Total time: 251.3s

Solution

That error isn’t really “OpenClaw update” failing — it’s

npm

npm

trying to fetch a dependency via GitHub SSH:

git ls-remote ssh://[email protected]/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git

git ls-remote ssh://[email protected]/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git

→ and your machine doesn’t have a GitHub SSH key configured, so you get

Permission denied (publickey)

Permission denied (publickey)

.

This is the same issue as: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/2711

Fix (recommended): tell git to use HTTPS instead of SSH for GitHub

Run:

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "ssh://[email protected]/"
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:"

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "ssh://[email protected]/"
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:"

Then retry:

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openclaw update fail

✅Solved

Ran openclaw update and get this error....

name@theclaw:~$ openclaw update

Updating OpenClaw...

│
◇ ✗ Updating via package manager (251.2s)
npm error code 128
npm error An unknown git error occurred
npm error command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git
npm error git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
npm error fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm error
npm error Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm error and the repository exists.
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/schergr/.npm/_logs/2026-02-09T16_46_43_986Z-debug-0.log

Update Result: ERROR
Root: /home/schergr/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/openclaw
Reason: global update
Before: 2026.2.6-3
After: 2026.2.6-3

Total time: 251.3s

Solution

That error isn’t really “OpenClaw update” failing — it’s

npm

npm

trying to fetch a dependency via GitHub SSH:

git ls-remote ssh://[email protected]/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git

git ls-remote ssh://[email protected]/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git

→ and your machine doesn’t have a GitHub SSH key configured, so you get

Permission denied (publickey)

Permission denied (publickey)

.

This is the same issue as: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/2711

Fix (recommended): tell git to use HTTPS instead of SSH for GitHub

Run:

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "ssh://[email protected]/"
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:"

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "ssh://[email protected]/"
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:"

Then retry:

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openclaw update fail

Fix (recommended): tell git to use HTTPS instead of SSH for GitHub

openclaw update fail

Fix (recommended): tell git to use HTTPS instead of SSH for GitHub

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