Hangs on startup

[hass@tight-seat ~]$ virtualenv venv
created virtual environment CPython3.9.5.final.0-64 in 305ms
  creator CPython3Posix(dest=/var/lib/hass/venv, clear=False, no_vcs_ignore=False, global=False)
  seeder FromAppData(download=False, pip=bundle, setuptools=bundle, wheel=bundle, via=copy, app_data_dir=/var/lib/hass/.local/share/virtualenv)
    added seed packages: pip==21.1.2, setuptools==57.0.0, wheel==0.36.2
  activators BashActivator,CShellActivator,FishActivator,PowerShellActivator,PythonActivator,XonshActivator
[hass@tight-seat ~]$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) [hass@tight-seat ~]$ pip install homeassistant==2021.5.5
Collecting homeassistant==2021.5.5
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Building wheels for collected packages: ciso8601, python-slugify, ruamel.yaml
  Building wheel for ciso8601 (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for ciso8601: filename=ciso8601-2.1.3-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl size=24284 sha256=b8824c76d57903ce82599f50913bb2c55e70e911c3fe2a219f86ee1533eeabeb
  Stored in directory: /var/lib/hass/.cache/pip/wheels/ff/60/18/30057901d273ddd1b2f73cb690b972d1f84e0307c6ec326644
  Building wheel for python-slugify (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for python-slugify: filename=python_slugify-4.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl size=6782 sha256=db98ec2bfaa449b6d1e915628001406028d46f2cb5cb6f99e20980da06ea14e7
  Stored in directory: /var/lib/hass/.cache/pip/wheels/84/5b/00/3ebff44b1e0a380d959960828803a9486ff2433728cceff666
  Building wheel for ruamel.yaml (setup.py) ... done
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  Stored in directory: /var/lib/hass/.cache/pip/wheels/73/fc/61/6ccc52b584e2e35f0462b27d2231ce3790702814d0c3b66b02
Successfully built ciso8601 python-slugify ruamel.yaml
Installing collected packages: sniffio, idna, rfc3986, pycparser, multidict, h11, anyio, yarl, voluptuous, urllib3, typing-extensions, text-unidecode, six, pytz, MarkupSafe, httpcore, chardet, cffi, certifi, attrs, async-timeout, voluptuous-serialize, ruamel.yaml, requests, pyyaml, python-slugify, PyJWT, pip, jinja2, httpx, cryptography, ciso8601, bcrypt, awesomeversion, astral, aiohttp, homeassistant
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 21.1.2
    Uninstalling pip-21.1.2:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-21.1.2
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-2.0.1 PyJWT-1.7.1 aiohttp-3.7.4.post0 anyio-3.2.1 astral-2.2 async-timeout-3.0.1 attrs-20.3.0 awesomeversion-21.2.3 bcrypt-3.1.7 certifi-2021.5.30 cffi-1.14.5 chardet-4.0.0 ciso8601-2.1.3 cryptography-3.3.2 h11-0.12.0 homeassistant-2021.5.5 httpcore-0.13.6 httpx-0.18.0 idna-2.10 jinja2-3.0.1 multidict-5.1.0 pip-20.2.4 pycparser-2.20 python-slugify-4.0.1 pytz-2021.1 pyyaml-5.4.1 requests-2.25.1 rfc3986-1.5.0 ruamel.yaml-0.15.100 six-1.16.0 sniffio-1.2.0 text-unidecode-1.3 typing-extensions-3.10.0.0 urllib3-1.26.5 voluptuous-0.12.1 voluptuous-serialize-2.4.0 yarl-1.6.3
(venv) [hass@tight-seat ~]$ /var/lib/hass/venv/bin/hass -c /var/lib/hass
Unable to find configuration. Creating default one in /var/lib/hass

At this point, it’s hanged for over a day.

I’ve cleared everything out of the configuration directory but my .bash_history file. I’ve also tried the latest version, but that didn’t work either.

HASS has worked in the past, not sure what’s going on here.

That is not the usual place to put your config. In fact hass may not even be able to write a config file there, which could make it hang.

Try

cd
mkdir .homeassistant
hass ~/.homeassistant