Can't update Home Assistant OS from 5.13 to 7.4

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi Everyone, I tried to update Home Assistant OS from 5.13 to 7.4, but it crashes in the process (shows “Connection lost. Reconnecting…” forever). The only way I found to recover it is restoring the backup files of the VM, as I have no access to the UI after trying to update. Anyone knows how to solve this?
I’m running HA 2022.3.2 (just updated) in VirtualBox under Windows10 (Dell notebook).

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Perhaps this solution will help. Login via SSH and make the update in a few steps.

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Thanks, @bertreb !
The command line updates of the OS almost worked, but it showed me that I might have a problem behind the update issue. Every update is followed by a restart and at every restart I get fail messages, one of them requiring a “ctrl-D” to proceed. After the command line updates, every restart requires interaction to finish. I guess that’s the reason I’m never getting to the UI, since this is shown even before HA command line is loaded.

Here are the screenshots of the failure messages:

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and then
error at reboot 3
Pressing ctrl-d gets Home Assistant to work, but it does not allow unattended restarts.

Any idea on how to fix this?

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