Home Assistant stops working after some minutes/hours 0.9X

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Dear All,

After updating my Home Assistant to version 0.9X, after some minutes/hours the raspberry pi 3 is still answering to ping but the home assistant GUI server is down and nothing works (automations, switches, Samba server…).

I would like to check the log to see what happened but it restarts from scratch when I reboot the raspberry. Is there any internal log which do not delete itself when I reboot the device and which I can check to understand why the server is failing?

Thank you in advance!

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If Samba isn’t working, it suggests the whole host is unresponsive.

How did you install Home Assistant? Hass.io, Hassbian, something else?

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Hello @Tinkerer, and thanks for your comment.

I followed these steps one year ago: https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/

The host is still answering to ping. I didn’t try SSH yet. But if I reboot it, everything works for some time, so there I can do SSH and check the logs I guess. But not sure where to look for those logs and also when I connect by SSH I dont get a real shell/bash so most of the usual Linux commands are not useful.

Thank you for your help in advance!

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I think this could be the answer. I will check at home:

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I had a problem like this, after going to 0.99. I disabled all custom_components, and it resolved the issue. I’m still trying to figure out what component it was. Could have been HACS, or an older custom pushover component, or a sonarr_upcoming, or anniverary.

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The custom components I use are the SonOff one and the Alexa one. I will try to disable it.

SSH is working but I cannot issue the commands from the HA official documentation.

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The Raspberry PI is not booting anymore… I didn’t do any changes. I just rebooted it but it is not even answering to ping anymore…

I guess I will need to install from scratch and load the last snapshot :frowning:

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Maybe is the micro SD card that is not longer working. I will check. Maybe I need the recommended Application Performance Class 2 card to avoid this. I will confirm.

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I had a total system failure this week since upgrading to 0.99 too. Nothing wrong with the SD card either, I did a fresh install and am back up and running on the same SD (Risky I know, but I plan to transition to SSD at the weekend so figured Id chance my hand to test the SD)

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So the problem was the SD card. I burned the last version of Hass.io in my new SD card and then I installed samba, I uploaded the snapshot and I went to Hass.io to restore an snapshot from one month ago when everything was working.

I click on restore (or wipe and restore) I see connection lost, reconnecting, I also see my raspberry Pi 3 B+ with the green hard drive LED flashing and after some minutes Home Assistant reconnects and everythins is defaults, the Snapshot restore is not working at all. What can I do know? The snapshot is 500MB and I see the files inside with WinRAR, so why nothing is changing? even if I reboot the server, same results, nothing changes :frowning:

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Solved. The snapshot password was not correct.

It does the WIPE but not the snapshot, no message is poped up.

Anyway, I am happy now!