Fix - Make Remote runtime use /start for both new and resume

[raymyers]

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Simplify remote runtime by calling the /start endpoint on both new runtimes and resumes, since runtime-api can handle both cases this was duplicating the server-side logic.

We've recently seen trouble resuming Remote runtimes in OpenHands Cloud, which may be related to multiple being created in a race condition, so the hope is to improve consistency by letting runtime-api decide which existing runtime to use if any.

An error associated is

Error connecting to conversation : Could not find existing runtime for SID: "

Logged from here:

OpenHands/openhands/runtime/impl/remote/remote_runtime.py

Line 121 in 2693360

raise AgentRuntimeNotFoundError(

This will ignore the attach_to_existing option on create (not on close). That was added in #4329 (Oct 2024) and I don't think it currently adds anything useful on RemoteRuntime create, but @tofarr and @rbren may have more context.

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docker run -it --rm   -p 3000:3000   -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock   --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway   -e SANDBOX_RUNTIME_CONTAINER_IMAGE=docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/runtime:364c571-nikolaik   --name openhands-app-364c571   docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:364c571

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