Boot message: “Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready…”

Installation
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Hi,

I’ve been running HA on a Raspberry Pi for nearly 6 months now. During that time I’ve applied a few updates when prompted from the HA GUI. Today after one of those updates, HA os i think, the system won’t restart.

There are some orange warnings during startup but they whizz past before i have anychane of reading before the screen clears to just display “Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready…”

No prompt or apparently any way to access anything.

Searching i see a few references to this symptom, but no answers.

Is there likely to be a fix, or does it have to be reinstalled from scratch?

Thanks.

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Connect a monitor and keyboard. See if you can boot into Safe mode: General troubleshooting - Home Assistant.

There may be some info in the system logs. See #5 here: How to Troubleshoot Raspberry Pi Crashing.

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Thanks. It won’t go into safe mode, from the # prompt after logging in as root, none of the “ha” commands do anything, the cursor just moves to the start of the next line and sits there indefinitely.

IP is working, I can ping it from our network either by IP or by DNS hostnane. And from the Pi # prompt I can ping out again either by address or name. For example it gets a reply from www.cisco.com.

Just mentioning because some of the suggestions I turned up revolved around network or DNS settings.