Docker on Raspberry Pi failing at /init (Error 143)

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Dear community,

I’m following the official HA guide to install it via Docker on a Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant
I’ve got a fresh install of Raspbian for Raspberry Pi 5 (64 bits)
No device is plugged into the RPi5
I’m installing in the officially recommended way

docker run -d \
  --name homeassistant \
  --privileged \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  -e TZ=Europe/Paris \
  -v /home/pi/hass:/config \
  -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro \
  --network=host \
  ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

Unfortunately, it seems the /init never work and is stuck in an infinite loop of restart due to Error 143:

docker ps

CONTAINER ID: THE_ID_123
IMAGE: ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
COMMAND: “/init”
CREATED: 9 minutes ago
STATUS: Restarting (143) 33 seconds ago
PORTS:
NAMES: homeassistant

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Why mount this?

Take it out and see if container run without it

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The Raspberry Pi 5 is NOT supported currently in the full install method, I see no reason why it would be supported in the docker method either. It’s an architecture issue of the host, docker can’t fix that.

You might find this of information:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360071

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The reason Home Assistant OS doesn’t support it is down to the hardware. People are already using Docker on a Pi5 to run Home Assistant, an approach recommended by the developers.

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It is on the official HO documentation to support bluetooth.
In the end it is an issue with jemalloc not working so I applied this fix Alternative - Home Assistant
It is not ideal since it is not optimized but at least it worked.
And I didn’t knew RPi5 was not supported yet tbh.

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Try adding
kernel=kernel8.img
To /boot/config.txt

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For now, you can switch to the dev build. Update your compose/dockerfile to use ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:dev instead of stable.

I would expect a stable release-candidate to support RPI5 soon.

For me, stable was failing on my RPI5 with this error which the devs seem to have already addressed. Thank you!

Fatal Python error: _PyRuntimeState_Init: memory allocation failed