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Restart Link

Restart an installed Link service when it is stopped or unresponsive. Restarting interrupts active requests.

Run these commands on the Link machine, in Terminal or PowerShell:

aventail status
aventail service stop
aventail service start
aventail status

If aventail is not on PATH, use the installed executable. For the macOS desktop app, replace aventail with "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Aventail-Link/aventail".

Use only service start if the service is already stopped. Then confirm Online in Control. The 2.0.0 CLI has service start and service stop; it does not have the old locai restart command.

Locai Link (Legacy Aventail) 1.x desktop app

Open Link → Preferences → Agent and select Restart. Check that the agent is Running, then confirm the device is Online in Control.

Locai Link (Legacy Aventail) 1.x terminal

Run these on the machine where Link is installed:

locai status
locai restart
locai status

If you only need to start a stopped service, use locai start. Check file locations if the command is missing.

Do not repeat registration just to restart the service. Packaged installations use the locai command; commands such as uv run main.py run belong to older source-install instructions.

If Link stays offline, retain the error and follow connection troubleshooting.