Looking for ideas because I can’t be the only one here whose system gets into a bad state with this new version.
Hardware:
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
- HAOS running on external SSD external storage
- Power over Ethernet (well over a year, no issues)
- External fan for extra cooling
I usually apply updates within a day or two of them releasing, same for 2024.8. I back up regularly so never really an issue to roll back if I need to wait for patches. I use quite a few custom UI components and a handful of custom integrations, but nothing new has been introduced for the past 6 months at least (aside from automations / etc) When I installed 2024.8 everything went fine at first. Then a few hours went by and I noticed I couldn’t connect to my host. It was unresponsive so I had to pull the power and plug it back in. Booted back up fine… At first. Note that the logs are extremely unhelpful here—all it can tell me is that “the database couldn’t verify that the system shut down was clean” with every crash.
After the 2nd boot, it only lasted an hour before ending up back in the “hang” state. It won’t reboot itself, just sits there and must be manually restarted to recover. Another reboot, another few hours go by… And it happens again.
I spent the entire weekend chasing ghosts trying to isolate the problem. I got so frustrated that I just nuked my 8gb database hoping that would help somehow. Nothing. Anywhere between 30 minutes to 6 hours will go by, and then the same crash. Every time. The only pattern I ever noticed was that sometimes the crash would appear to happen within a few minutes of interacting with one of my wall-mounted dashboards. But it wasn’t consistent. It would also happen sometimes when I had an echo device send a voice command to home assistant. But again, not a consistent repro.
Eventually I gave up after wasting an entire weekend, and rolled back to 2024.7.2. The system ran flawlessly the moment I rolled it back. No issues for multiple weeks. I figured maybe it was something that might be addressed by one of the incremental updates of 2024.8, so I waited until 2024.8.2 to give it another try. Again the installation went fine, but the same issue came right back.
At this point I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried …
- a full clean install of home assistant OS
- nuking my database
- switching USB ports for the components hooked up to the raspberry pi including the SSD
- shutting down a ton of the custom components (which is not a long-term solution, without those custom components home assistant is basically useless to me).
But anytime my system is running 20 24.8, it’s too unstable to rely on for any more than a couple of hours.
I know I’m not the only one hitting issues like this. But I can’t seem to find someone with the exact same issues echoing in the community forums. It seems like a lot of people are having issues with the database upgrade, and that didn’t seem to cause any problems for me. So I’m reaching out to see if anybody else can say that they’re avoiding the 2024.8 update because of these style of issue. I really want to be able to upgrade to the next version so I can take advantage of some of the updates that came with it, including things like Tessie which has some new functionality that I really want for my car.
I’m worried that I’m just going to be stuck on this core version forever, because the updates will take my system down. Is anyone else stuck??