System broken after last update

Dears, I am hoping someone can give me an alternative solution to a restore.

I updated my system to the latest version, 2023.4.6 and now my home assistant instance is stuck at the default welcome page “preparing home assistant”

I have a backup of twk weeks ago but I’d rather not visit that route.

If I had a dollar for every time I did an update without first doing a backup, I could buy a… can of Pepsi.

I don’t think I can help you, but what is your host computer and how is Home Assistant installed? Have you tried restarting the host? Do you have a keyboard and display on the host computer or is this over SSH? Can you access the command line to look at home-assistant.log? Did you install the Samba Share add-on? This shares the config folder and you could see it from another PC on your network.

I’m using a raspberry pi 4 wiyh home assistant OS.
I have tried restarting the host.

Sadly I didn’t configure ssh or smb yet… lessoned learned though, always backup.

Can you connect a monitor and keyboard to the pi?