HA on docker rootless stopped working after regular Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade

Installation
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Hi All,

I had HA running in my computer with Ubuntu 24.04 on docker rootless with no issue.

Yesterday, Ubuntu did a regular packages upgrade and I was asked to reboot. After doing so, I cannot access my HA installation.

I tried to update HA just in case:

docker pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
docker stop homeassistant
docker rm homeassistant
docker run -d --name homeassistant --restart=unless-stopped -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -v <my_home_folder:/config> -p 8123:8123 ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable

And got this message:

docker: Error response from daemon: failed to set up container networking: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint homeassistant (4771949111bbac8046239ca41d989c58a70e5102e7984defc06978c75510a7c1): failed to bind host port 10.0.2.100:8123/tcp: address already in use

These were the last updated Ubuntu packages that required a reboot:

$ grep "status installed" /var/log/dpkg.log*
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:05 status installed linux-tools-6.14.0-34-generic:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:05 status installed linux-hwe-6.14-tools-6.14.0-34:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:07 status installed linux-image-6.14.0-34-generic:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:11 status installed linux-modules-extra-6.14.0-34-generic:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:12 status installed linux-modules-6.14.0-34-generic:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:14 status installed linux-headers-6.14.0-34-generic:amd64 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 06:33:15 status installed linux-hwe-6.14-headers-6.14.0-34:all 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:06 status installed xdg-dbus-proxy:amd64 0.1.5-1ubuntu0.1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:06 status installed desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.27-2build1
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:06 status installed hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.17-2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:06 status installed gnome-menus:amd64 3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:06 status installed libc-bin:amd64 2.39-0ubuntu8.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed man-db:amd64 2.12.0-4build2
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libgtk-4-common:all 4.14.5+ds-0ubuntu0.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed gnome-shell-common:all 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.11
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libglib2.0-0t64:amd64 2.80.0-6ubuntu3.4
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libgtk-4-1:amd64 4.14.5+ds-0ubuntu0.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libgtk-4-bin:amd64 4.14.5+ds-0ubuntu0.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed gir1.2-gtk-4.0:amd64 4.14.5+ds-0ubuntu0.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed gnome-shell:amd64 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.11
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libgtk-4-media-gstreamer:amd64 4.14.5+ds-0ubuntu0.6
/var/log/dpkg.log:2025-11-22 09:48:07 status installed libc-bin:amd64 2.39-0ubuntu8.6

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.
Jordi.

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Shut Down host
Restart
I sometimes get this after restarts but I forget detailed cause. I just know full shutdown (not restart) it fast resolution

Docker ps
Is another container running? What’s using the port? This is why HA not starting

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Rebooting would just prevent us from proper troubleshooting.Share the result of these

docker ps
ss -lntp | grep "8123"

Note that this is not necessarily supported.

I’d recommend you use a compose file.

4

Nothing returned on both commands:

5

It seems to be a problem with the latest docker-rootless update.

I found exactly the same issue in this post:

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Issue solved with docker 29.1.2