Hey everyone. Went to update my system today and ran into trouble. Tried updating via the UI but it just failed. I restored a snapshot via SSH and was able to get it back up. My question is “What OS am I running here?” Hass OS, Debian?
Its been a while but I’m fairly certain I installed Debian 10 on my Intel Nuc and then Home Assistant. I don’t recall any of the install steps. I noticed an error saying that Supervisor is unsupported.
I read something about needing to update to Debian 11. Found update instructions but that is where I’m confused. When I SSH in, this is the screen I get. I can run all of the ha commands, but anything like sudo, dpkg, etc. are not available as they would be on a typical linux install.
Am I running some sort of hybrid install here, or am I missing something?
TLDR: Can’t update OS because its saying the Supervisor is unsupported. Tried updating using documented commands that failed possibly due to Frankenstein install.
You are running version 2021.10.4 of Home Assistant Supervised on Debian 10.
The “Unsupported installation” message is probably due to what you have already concluded: you need to upgrade the operating system to Debian 11.
That image is what you see when you use the SSH Add-on and it is not logging into the underlying Debian 10 operating system (it’s connecting to a docker container). That’s why you don’t have access to the aforementioned commands.
You need to use an SSH client (if you’re using Windows, something like putty or BitVise SSH Client) to connect to the machine that is running Debian 10 and hosting Home Assistant.
Did you install it or did someone else? Whatever method you used to connect to the machine in order to install Home Assistant Supervised is the method you should consider using to upgrade its operating system. Alternately, assuming it’s a headless machine, attach a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to it.
