I forgot to mention that even after installing a fresh install of Meshtastic it still wasn’t opening. I found the issue. On the pi 5, the GPIO header isn’t assigned to gpiochip0 like Meshtastic expects by default—it’s assigned to gpiochip15. Because of that, Meshtastic was trying to access the wrong GPIO controller and crashed during startup. After I changed the Lora configuration text file to use gpiochip: 15, Meshtastic started working.
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Thank you so very much!
meshtasticd quits crashing after you the gpiochip: 15 line