Symptom
openclaw update stops in the validating phase at step updater-runtime-retention inside an unprivileged LXC container.
Evidence what you'll see
- Error: native file copy failed | FICLONE: Operation not permitted (os error 1) | EPERM
- Fails at the same step every time
- Seen in unprivileged Proxmox LXC containers whose seccomp profile blocks the clone ioctl
Cause
The container blocks the file-clone ioctl, and the updater treated the resulting EPERM as fatal instead of falling back to a normal byte copy.
Fix steps
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Verify the fix worked
- Run openclaw update again and confirm it gets past updater-runtime-retention.
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