Major Config Issues - HA not starting and restore backup doesn't work

Having had a stable HA for a number of months in the last few days I’ve had an issue which I can’t seem to fix and it’s led me to have to take HA offline. I’ve restored previous backups but that doesn’t fix the issue - suggesting it could be a hardware not a software issue. I’m running HA as a VM on Proxmox - the other VM (OMV) and LXC (Frigate) seem to be working fine.

When starting up HA I’m getting the following error:

[WARN] Home Assistant CLI not starting! Jumping into emergency console
# [167.741156 ] CIFS: VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[ 167.744151 ] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = 113
[ 171.838132 ] CIFS: VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[ 171.842029 ] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = 111

It looks as though CIFS errors might be to do with an authentication error - but I’m not sure where or how to fix?

Just to say that I do have backups, media etc. stored on a separate but connected hard drive.

The other thing to add is that after a short period of time I’m unable to access my Proxmox IP address - so something seems to be knocking it all offline.

Any clues - I’d prefer not to have to start a completely new install.

Thanks

Try pinging the remote server.
Restart smb on the remote server.
That’s the end of my skill set.

Thanks - packets are receiving (or at least as it says) but it’s also saying destination host unreachable.

There’s your problem. Do you have another computer where you can mount the share?

Can I just unmount the share for the timebeing?

Can’t hurt to try.