Hacs just says starting up and hacs custom components won’t update

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After several restarts hacs keeps saying it’s still starting up.

This means when I try and update hacs addons it lets me but when I restart HA it says they still need updating and hacs is still starting up.

Only thing I can see in the logs is this:

Logger: homeassistant
Source: custom_components/hacs/hacsbase/hacs.py:195
First occurred: 15:57:30 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 15:57:30

Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/config/custom_components/hacs/hacsbase/hacs.py”, line 140, in startup_tasks
await self.handle_critical_repositories()
File “/config/custom_components/hacs/hacsbase/hacs.py”, line 195, in handle_critical_repositories
critical = json.loads(critical.content)
AttributeError: ‘list’ object has no attribute ‘content’

Any ideas?

2

I get the same with mine, with no solution found yet.

3

To be clear, HACS doesn’t do add-ons - what you’re referring to are custom components.

Add-ons are other software such as the Mosquitto broker. Integrations are how Home Assistant communicates with other software and services, which may include those add-ons.

4

sorry yes my custom components wont update and HACs permanently says starting up.

5

This is an issue for me since version HA 2021.5.0.

6

Update HACS to the latest version, that should work ok. A work a round to be able to update HACS is by disabling line 195 and assing None.

critical = json.loads(critical.content)

like

# critical = json.loads(critical.content)
critical = None

Then restart HA and update HACS (clear browser history).
Updating also reverts the work-a-round.

7

Thank you. Just to confirm I deleted hacs abs reinstalled and all working fine now

8

What is “abs” ?

9

Hi, please can you explain what you did because I have the same problem with HACS?