Problem with Mosquito broker

I hope someone can help. Since about 6am today my mosquito broker has stopped working. Here’s the log:

mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:14] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:14] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:14] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:15] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:15: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:15] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:15] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:16] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:16] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:16: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:17] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:17] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:17] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:18] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:18: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:18] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:18] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:18] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:19] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:19: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:19] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:19] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:19] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:20] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:20: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:20] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:20] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:21] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:21] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:21: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:21] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:22] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:22] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:23] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:23: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:23] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:23] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:23] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:24] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:24: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:24] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:24] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:24] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:25] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:25: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:25] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:25] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:26] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:26] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:26: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:26] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:27] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:27] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:27] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:27: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:28] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:28] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:28] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:29] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:29: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:29] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:29] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:29] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:30] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:30: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:30] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:30] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:31] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:31] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:31: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:31] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:32] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:32] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:32] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:32: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:33] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:33] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:33] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.
[07:03:34] INFO: Starting mosquitto MQTT broker...
2023-10-31 07:03:34: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
mosquitto: persist_read.c:550: persist__restore_sub: Assertion `client_id' failed.
[07:03:34] INFO: Service restart after closing
[07:03:34] INFO: Successfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.
[07:03:34] INFO: Successfully send service information to the Supervisor.

I’ve tried restarting Mosquito and a full host restart. Please help.

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Thanks for pointing me at this. In my concerned state I forgot to search.

I have the same problem