Home assistant log increased

thuva · June 13, 2024, 5:45am

I did not check the logs for somewhile, and today I noticed that the disk is full. I have “home_assistant_xxxx.log” which is almost 22gb. I can not even connect with Terminal SSH, because disck is full. How can I clear or delete the log file? and how can I put filter on log such that only last 7 days are backed there?

tom_l · June 13, 2024, 6:26am

The log is a text file. 22 GB of text is enormous. You have a major issue.

Do you have the SAMBA Share addon installed?

If so, use a PC to navigate to the config share and download config/home_assistant.log. then delete it from the system. Do download it first so you can see what happened.

What sort of install hardware are you using?

thuva · June 13, 2024, 6:46am

I do not have Samba share, checking the log. Running un raspberry pi with 32gb sd card

Sir_Goodenough · June 13, 2024, 7:33am

tom_l · June 13, 2024, 7:37am

Shutdown.

Take the card out of the Pi.

Put in in a PC card reader.

If it is a Linux PC you are all set to find the file, cut and paste it somewhere else.

If it is a Windows PC you can use DiskInternals Linux Reader (free) to read the file to see what is going on. You can’t write / delete the file.

Restarting Home Assistant twice should delete the file. First time it renames the file to home_assistant.log.1 and starts a new home_assistant.log file. Second time it does that again overwriting the huge home_assistant.log.1 file.

thuva · June 13, 2024, 8:56am

i restarted and is not restarting any more. going to connect directly and delete it. Lets see.

tom_l · June 13, 2024, 9:08am

Move the file off the system rather than deleting it. We need to know what happened to prevent it happening again.

thuva · June 13, 2024, 9:24am

I think I turned on “DEBUG” and forget to turn it off. Do not know where I did this.

thuva · June 13, 2024, 7:56pm

I am connected directly to rasberry, I am not able to find the log with 25gb file. I searched for config, nothing found.

boheme61 · June 13, 2024, 8:24pm

As mentioned above by Tom, search for “home-assistant.log” and “home-assistant.log.1”

If You mean you are in the CLI, it’s located in /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant

thuva · June 18, 2024, 6:33am

I end up resetting everything from backup and installing new os. After restarting it messed up everything. I deleted some journel file to clear some spaces then it messed up.

Grumblezz · September 10, 2024, 7:09am

I’m having the same issue. The .log file was over 22 GB and the .log.1 was also 18GB. Using Studio Code Server I was able to remove the files and I rebooted afterwards. After the reboot the .log file was direct over 50MB So I openend up the log file, and it turns out MQTT that is causing the many errors. In this case it is correct as I’m deploying a new MQTT server, and I did not disabled the MQTT integration, but I didn’t expect this

2024-09-10 09:02:27.981 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant] Error doing job: Exception in callback MQTT._async_reader_callback(<homeassistan...x7ff4f847a5a0>)() (None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/asyncio/events.py", line 88, in _run
    self._context.run(self._callback, *self._args)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/mqtt/client.py", line 499, in _async_reader_callback
    if (status := client.loop_read(MAX_PACKETS_TO_READ)) != 0:
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py", line 1556, in loop_read
    rc = self._packet_read()
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py", line 2439, in _packet_read
    rc = self._packet_handle()
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py", line 3029, in _packet_handle
    return self._handle_pubackcomp("PUBACK")
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py", line 3519, in _handle_pubackcomp
    reasonCode.unpack(self._in_packet['packet'][2:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/reasoncodes.py", line 167, in unpack
    name = self.__getName__(self.packetType, c)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paho/mqtt/reasoncodes.py", line 138, in __getName__
    assert identifier in self.names.keys(), identifier
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 47

ogger: homeassistant
Source: components/mqtt/client.py:499
First occurred: 9:01:35 AM (239060 occurrences)
Last logged: 9:10:01 AM

Error doing job: Exception in callback MQTT._async_reader_callback(<homeassistan...x7ff4f847a5a0>)() (None)