Waiting for home assistant cli to be ready

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Earlier today I chose to upgrade my HA Core to 2023.11.0
I had a list of 6-7 pending updates so I manually performed a full backup of HA before starting the core update.
When I launched the core update I did not check the backup box (because I just made a full backup).
HA has not come back. I must have waited 2 hours but I could not reconnect to HA – still installing update.
Eventually I did a hard reboot on my x8086 pc on which HAOS is installed.
The linux terminal window eventually shows up with a message at the top saying “Waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready …”
There is a prompt on my terminal screen ha>
Is there a terminal command I can enter to restore HA from my full backup?

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I have the exact same issue (with virtualbox). I don’t know what to do to unlock the situation !

Edit: I have just solved the issue following those instructions :

had the same problem.
My system got stuck with the message Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready....
During boot it run into a 1:30 min. timeout when accessing the /dev/disk/by-label/hassos-data.

My solution after 2-3 hours research was relabeling the /dev/disk/by-label/hassos-data-old into /dev/disk/by-label/hassos-data.

But How?!

  1. Within the open blocked console with the text “Waiting for the Home Assistant CLI to be ready…” hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 to open a second terminal.
  2. here you have to login to HassOS in my case the user was “root”
  3. Now you should have a terminal to work with.
  4. Here you should check the label with e2label /dev/sda8. Im my case this returned hassos-data-old.
    5.Probably in your case the device is different.*
    6.If it returns the correct hassos-data then this solution is probably caused by another reason.*
  5. To rename the label execute e2label /dev/sda8 hassos-data
  6. Finally reboot HassOS by executing reboot in the terminal.

I hope this step by step guide helps the not so experience users.

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Thank you. I would have gotten here eventually, but you saved me hours of toil.

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Hi, this happened to me today when I installed the core update that came out. How do I find the file I need to change the name of once I get the second command terminal open? I don’t know many of the ha cli commands.

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Big thank you. It worked, following your instructions step by step. The only problem I found was when trying to log into HassOS. I tried every user/pwd combo I have ever used, but no luck. Until I simply used “root” as user. And that solved it all. If I had only read your msg paying more attention…

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Thank you. Saviour.

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Hey,

got the same issue today after the last Core Update. I am stuck at “e2label /dev/sda8”, because it can not be found (no such file or directory… → Couldn’t find valid filesystem superblock) . Am i screwed :(?

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Got the same issue this week.
Renaming the label fixed the booting problem.
Big thank you!

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Just adding my “thank you” to the list! While updating to the latest HA core and OS - I ran into the same issue, followed your steps, and now everything is back up and running!

Thanks again!