Error reading from server: EOF

[d4v1d26]

Hello, since my HA crashed during an update, I can’t istall it properly anymore. The Raspberry Pi 4 startup works just fine, but I get two reading errors in the HA console, no matter what I try. I use a raspberry 4 starter kit with the original power cable, upgraded to a SanDisk extreme 128gb and tried the official raspberry pi imager and balena etcher to install the image. Neither worked with always the same errors:

ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.manager] Unavailable: error reading from server: EOF

And later

ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.manager] failed commit on ref “layer-sha256:c740469f65c9ae5b65a8226ee28a1afa9a291b9e3398e7add0e673a83a17ad33”: commit failed: unexpected commit digest sha256:69ca9ba1e552853052c667944921f5b82e4576a9493139b175cadf602187273c, expected sha256:c740469f65c9ae5b65a8226ee28a1afa9a291b9e3398e7add0e673a83a17ad33: failed precondition

I tried everything despite using an ssd as they are quite expensive.
Any help or ideas are very much appreciated.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

@d4v1d26

HA crashed during an update

Crash during an update is a sure sign that the SD card died.

@d4v1d26

the original power cable

These sometimes go bad, you may want to find one that has a higher wattage rating.

@d4v1d26

a SanDisk extreme 128gb a

This sounds OK. Any SD actually rated class 10 is recommended, assuming they are bought from a reputable source and aren’t a counterfeit of the OEM brand.

How to Troubleshoot Raspberry Pi Crashing

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[d4v1d26]

The SD card is directly bought from SanDisk, I cleaned it multiple times via the imager or cmd. And I checked the Pi’s logs for any power issues, non accured. I’ll check the other log files later

[d4v1d26]

So I can’t really access the logs because HA is not starting, but I checked the emergency console. The docker is running but has 0 container due to the errors I posted.

[d4v1d26]

I‘ve bought an SSD and new power cable, still getting an Error during the HA-Core-Installation:
2026-02-19 23:55:26.676 ERROR (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.manager] failed commit on ref “layer-sha256:283904c2a758a9cca7646ae95e3f11352178afc0a531dc96fb03c50e50279784”: commit failed: unexpected commit digest sha256:788fe9d548b7544da48fb31b9b466f1fe7d115a70260d1dc4e1e7df793f1e3aa, expected sha256:283904c2a758a9cca7646ae95e3f11352178afc0a531dc96fb03c50e50279784: failed precondition