Error while starting zigbee-herdsman Failed to start zigbee

Configuration Zigbee
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Hi Marko,

I had the exact same error message and was going in circles trying to figure it out.
Basically there are 2 versions of your stick with the same name.
There is -P version and -E version, as you can see in Supported Adapters | Zigbee2MQTT they actually mentioned it.

So -P version works out of the box but the -E not so much - the one I had.
If you have the -E version, same as me check this youtube video

However, while this did fix an issue of starting the zigbee-herdsman I was still getting a different error, I think ping 600. So I had to remove the newly created mqtt-user and leave that portion blank. Also if you are using RPi make sure dongle is connected to usb2.0 port.

in the end, I used the following configuration.yaml, which automatically added user/pass under mqtt field (not showed here)

homeassistant: true
mqtt:
  server: mqtt://core-mosquitto:1883
serial:
  port: >-
    /dev/serial/by-id/usb-ITEAD_SONOFF_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_20220818082811-if00
  adapter: ezsp
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