File Editor Add on not starting

Installation Home Assistant OS
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The File Editor add on has been working fine for the month or 2 I’ve been using Home Assistant. Suddenly it won’t run, and won’t start. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling and rebooting, updated to most recent HA version but still getting the same errors.

  • Installation method: Home Assistant OS
  • Core: 2025.6.1
  • Supervisor: 2025.05.5
  • Operating System: 15.2
  • Frontend: 20250531.3
  • Raspbery Pii

Really want to get to my configuration yaml file (as on pii, not aware of other ways of accessing the file to edit - if people know of other add ons/HACS repos that can allow me edit access to it, I am all ears.

Failed to to call /addons/core_configurator/start - Can't create container from addon_core_configurator: 500 Server Error for http+docker://localhost/v1.48/containers/create?name=addon_core_configurator: Internal Server Error ("stat /mnt/data/docker/overlay2/094972f6100aca14493e5228c1c3b2d735305008dde21f79e109bac6e73f9b92-init/merged/etc/resolv.conf: bad message")
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Try the Samba share add-on from the official add-on store.

Also have you uninstalled and re-installed the file editor add-on?

Edit: ignore that

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Seems your overlay2 folder is corrupt. Install the ‘advanced ssh && web terminal’, and in the terminal run

ha supervisor repair
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Tried this but unfortunately didn’t work.

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Samba (assume to mean Samba Share as it now seems to be called) seems to do the job, thanks!

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This happened to me and uninstalling and reinstalling the addon worked. This is just fyi as I know you said you tried doing this.

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Yup that seemed to be the obvious thing to try based on everything I’d read on here, even tried toggling the remove any add on data, but no luck. Given its on a Raspberry Pi, needed some way of accessing the config file, wasn’t fussed how.

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I also use a different addon called File Browser which is pretty good. Not as functional as File Editor but good to have a second way to edit files.