Home Assistant OS 10 update has broken my Pi 4b 4GB

zillion42 · May 4, 2023, 10:39pm

Hi there,

I just want to add to this. I have a:
Pi 4b 8GB
USB Boot to ORICO SSD Portable External 128GB Mini M.2 NVME

I updated from HA OS 9.5 to 10.0, the day it was released and it has been a nightmare since. I read that some people were not even able to boot when they updated with a similar NVME SSD Pi4 hardware configuration.

github.com/home-assistant/operating-system

Fail to boot after Upgrade to 10.0 CM4 NVMe

opened 08:09PM - 18 Apr 23 UTC

closed 03:02PM - 26 Apr 23 UTC

KartoffelToby

bug board/raspberrypi

### Describe the issue you are experiencing I didn't get the note its not boota…ble with an nvme, So i use a cm4 with an nvme boot, i Upgrade from 9.5 to 10 in the UI and now it doesnt boot anymore. Any Options to downgrade via fileswap? E.g. This is really dangures to provide updates in the UI that breaks some Setups totally ### What operating system image do you use? rpi4-64 (Raspberry Pi 4/400 64-bit OS) ### What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed? 10 ### Did you upgrade the Operating System. Yes ### Steps to reproduce the issue 1. Go to the UI and hit the os 10 Update Button 2. Wait for the Install 3. Reboot, bricked boot ### Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us? ```txt Nothing ``` ### Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us? ```txt Nothing ``` ### System information CM4 with nvme ### Additional information _No response_

Luckily mine did, it just kept crashing every 5 hours or so. I connected the HDMI and saw that it was the SQUASHFS becoming read only and journald errors.

compare:

I since changed the power supply from a 20W 4 Ampere to a macbook usb-c charger and updated to HA OS 10.1 which, brought some stability improvement. But still it crashed, then about every other day.

Today I rolled back to HA OS 9.5:
ha os update --version 9.5
ha core update --version=2023.1.7

and its currently migrating my DB back

Database is about to upgrade from schema version: 41 to: 30

so it’s still very busy. It yet remains to be seen whether I get my old regular 1 month or more uptime without crashes. I really hope so.

This is not OKAY!

I suspect it has something to do with the following ‘features’, from release notes:

zswap instead of swap in zram is used. This should allow to use Home Assistant OS on systems with lower amounts of RAM with the trade-off of slightly higher storage wear.

For reference, these are the release notes of HA OS 10.1, so something was really not okay with the 10.0 Release, and it’s quite annoying

Raspberry Pi

Fix boot on Raspberry Pi 4 32-bit (#2500) (#2505) @agners
Fix NVMe SSD boot for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4 (#2479) (#2493) @agners

github.com/home-assistant/operating-system

Stability problems since updating to 10 and 10.1 Pi4 8GB NVMe SSD via USB adapter

opened 11:29PM - 04 May 23 UTC

closed 05:40AM - 19 Feb 24 UTC

zillion42

bug board/raspberrypi usb-ssd stale

### Describe the issue you are experiencing Hi there, I just want to add t…o this. I have a: Pi 4b 8GB USB Boot to ORICO SSD Portable External 128GB Mini M.2 NVME I updated from HA OS 9.5 to 10.0, the day it was released and it has been a nightmare since. I read that some people were not even able to boot when they updated with a similar NVME SSD Pi4 hardware configuration. https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/2479 Luckily mine did, it just kept crashing every 5 hours or so. I connected the HDMI and saw that it was the SQUASHFS becoming read only and journald errors. ![20230427_204604](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36650866/236351317-f05eadce-5346-45b6-8e57-4c1a10bf5b19.jpg) compare: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/squashfs-error-ext4-fs-error/293167 I since changed the power supply from a 20W 4 Ampere to a macbook usb-c charger and updated to HA OS 10.1 which, brought some stability improvement. But still it crashed, then about every other day. Today I rolled back to HA OS 9.5: `ha os update --version 9.5` `ha core update --version=2023.1.7` and its currently migrating my DB back > Database is about to upgrade from schema version: 41 to: 30 so it's still very busy. It yet remains to be seen whether I get my old regular 1 month or more uptime without crashes. I really hope so. This is not OKAY! I suspect it has something to do with the following 'features', from release notes: > * zswap instead of swap in zram is used. This should allow to use Home Assistant OS on systems with lower amounts of RAM with the trade-off of slightly higher storage wear. ### What operating system image do you use? rpi4-64 (Raspberry Pi 4/400 64-bit OS) ### What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed? 10.1 ### Did you upgrade the Operating System. Yes ### Steps to reproduce the issue 1.Upgrade from 9.5 to 10.0 2.Upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 ### Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us? ```txt can't read relevant logs since I downgraded ``` ### Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us? ```txt can't read relevant logs since I downgraded ``` ### System information ## System Information version | core-2023.1.7 -- | -- installation_type | Home Assistant OS dev | false hassio | true docker | true user | root virtualenv | false python_version | 3.10.7 os_name | Linux os_version | 5.15.84-v8 arch | aarch64 timezone | Europe/Berlin config_dir | /config <details><summary>Home Assistant Community Store</summary> GitHub API | ok -- | -- GitHub Content | ok GitHub Web | ok GitHub API Calls Remaining | 5000 Installed Version | 1.32.1 Stage | running Available Repositories | 1280 Downloaded Repositories | 18 </details> <details><summary>Home Assistant Cloud</summary> logged_in | false -- | -- can_reach_cert_server | ok can_reach_cloud_auth | ok can_reach_cloud | ok </details> <details><summary>Home Assistant Supervisor</summary> host_os | Home Assistant OS 9.5 -- | -- update_channel | stable supervisor_version | supervisor-2023.04.1 agent_version | 1.4.1 docker_version | 20.10.22 disk_total | 116.7 GB disk_used | 33.4 GB healthy | true supported | true board | rpi4-64 supervisor_api | ok version_api | ok installed_addons | Samba share (10.0.1), SSH & Web Terminal (13.1.0), Duck DNS (1.15.0), File editor (5.6.0), Mosquitto broker (6.2.1), ESPHome (2023.4.4), SQLite Web (3.7.1) </details> <details><summary>Dashboards</summary> dashboards | 1 -- | -- resources | 11 views | 6 mode | storage </details> <details><summary>Recorder</summary> oldest_recorder_run | 7 November 2022 at 21:22 -- | -- current_recorder_run | 5 May 2023 at 00:06 estimated_db_size | 8282.91 MiB database_engine | sqlite database_version | 3.38.5 </details> ### Additional information I downgraded to 9.5 today I also posted this on the forum: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-os-10-update-has-broken-my-pi-4b-4gb/561918/24 I hope you are aware that many Pi4b users have a very unstable system at the moment.