Reboots & Incomplete Journals

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Surprised there is not a general support category as my issue is not a blog, has nothing to do with configuration, installation, hardware or anything of the other categories, imho so here goes:

First off, a preemptive Thank you! to anyone reading and or commenting on this issue.

History: HA user for about 2 years and for the most part it has been in a “leave it alone, its working great” state.

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4 running HAOS with Z-Wave & Zigbee dongles

Overall issue: A few months ago HA started rebooting itself randomly every day. Anywhere from 2 to over 20 times throughout the day.

Current roadblock: The pre-reboot Journal is incomplete offering no info. It just stops. If there should be a journal before a shutdown is not being created.

TLDR: HA keeps rebooting and I have no means of learning why.

Thank you to everyone reading this.

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sd-card or disk ? , disk-space available ?

next step: try to unplug your usb devices/dongles (see if it gets as far as “complaining” about it )

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I have swapped dongles already. If I could read the journal then I am sure I would be able to pinpoint it but the lack of journals is killing me

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well, i like your “classic” system-view, miss it abit, and haven’t had time to setup something like that again :slight_smile:

Have you tried with, starting without any dongles, and do you have external ssd ??
Maybe your powersource can’t handle the load

Nothing in the Logs ? , tried enable Debug in Logger ?

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No, logs dont have anything and the journals are not complete. That’s the whole roadblock I am looking to fix. Soon as I know why the journals are not complete I can fix that and then look at the journals as to why the crash is happening.

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Any particular reason why you refuse/avoid answering my “questions” in regards to your storage-media ?
As you seems to be able to start it, and run it, i would enable debug ( which you haven’t answered, or “provided” ), And as you also seems to have a “time line” and can run your HA instance, i would “Restore” from backup, past “few” month ago :wink:

Thanks for the reading and seeing your nice system-resource View

BTW: You didn’t either “commend” in regards to your power-source

Good luck, ps: dont stay up to long, wondering about your “journals”, i doubt you get an answer that way ( And you already mentioned them 3 times )

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I had a similar issue due to having added USB devices to the RPi - the power supply was only just adequate, but with the extra draw from USB it couldn’t cope, leading to random reboots.

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No was just derping. I thought the screenshot gave you the answer. My b.

I use a 128GB SD

Power source, case, keyboard, mouse, etc are all original RPi branded items. Thats all I know on the power source. I dont mind trying a hub tho to take off some of the power draw.

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Ya, I don’t think that power is the issue.

Tried adding USB dongles to a powered hub. Reboots.
Tried a larger adapter (65w). Reboots.
Tried my Thunderbolt 4 port with a TB4 cable ranked at 100w. Reboots.