HASS suddenly fails

Configuration
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Home Assistant suddenly started failing for reasons unknown to me. Came home to a fail.
Only thing I remember doing was updating the system after updating Home Assistant to the latest version (27.2)

Sep 05 09:19:56 hass systemd[1]: Starting Home Assistant…
Sep 05 09:19:56 hass systemd[1]: Started Home Assistant.
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: Config directory: /home/hass/.homeassistant
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/hass”, line 11, in
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: sys.exit(main())
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/main.py”, line 330, in main
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: exit_code = setup_and_run_hass(config_dir, args)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/main.py”, line 247, in setup_and_run_hass
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: log_rotate_days=args.log_rotate_days)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/bootstrap.py”, line 309, in from_config_file
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: config_dict = conf_util.load_yaml_config_file(config_path)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/config.py”, line 191, in load_yaml_config_file
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: conf_dict = load_yaml(config_path)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/util/yaml.py”, line 42, in load_yaml
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: return yaml.load(conf_file, Loader=SafeLineLoader) or {}
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/yaml/init.py”, line 70, in load
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: loader = Loader(stream)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/yaml/loader.py”, line 24, in init
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: Reader.init(self, stream)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/yaml/reader.py”, line 85, in init
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: self.determine_encoding()
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/yaml/reader.py”, line 124, in determine_encoding
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: self.update_raw()
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/yaml/reader.py”, line 178, in update_raw
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: data = self.stream.read(size)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/codecs.py”, line 313, in decode
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass hass[5656]: UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xec in position 1075: invalid continuation byte
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass systemd[1]: home-assistant.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 05 09:19:59 hass systemd[1]: Unit home-assistant.service entered failed state.

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Hi , i have the same problem ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xec in position . Any idea how we can resolve it?

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Same here :frowning: I have 3 RPis with HA? two of them running just well, 3rd just ended with this error :frowning:

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At every update, you should read the release notes to see if there are any breaking changes or anything that might affect your particular setup. I would try the update again. It can’t hurt and if there was something that didn’t get applied it should update or install it.