core: ZHA fails to initialize and crashes Home Assistant

The problem

Whenever I reboot Home Assistant, the ZHA integration fails to initialize due to a TimeoutError with approximately a 50% chance. When this happens, the HASS frontend completely loses connection after about a minute after the reboot. Apart from the ZHA errors there are no related errors visible in the log file.

Edit: as @puddly suggested the issue might not be ZHA failing to initialize, as this could be a symptom of the hanging/freezing of Home Assistant itself.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.1.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

core-2023.12.1

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

ZHA

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/

Diagnostics information

config_entry-zha-ff591d6fd696473209f0e6b86613d098.json.txt

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

2024-01-13 20:07:45.709 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.zha] ZHA storage file does not exist or was already removed

2024-01-13 20:07:50.431 ERROR (bellows.thread_0) [bellows.uart] CRC error in frame b'9c2791907e' (b'9190' != b'140c')

2024-01-13 20:07:56.889 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.zha] Failed to set up ZHA
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/bellows/ezsp/protocol.py", line 74, in command
    return await future
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/zha/__init__.py", line 163, in async_setup_entry
    zha_gateway = await ZHAGateway.async_from_config(
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/zha/core/gateway.py", line 193, in async_from_config
    await instance.async_initialize()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/zha/core/gateway.py", line 211, in async_initialize
    await app.startup(auto_form=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/zigpy/application.py", line 226, in startup
    await self.initialize(auto_form=auto_form)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/zigpy/application.py", line 142, in initialize
    await self.load_network_info(load_devices=False)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/bellows/zigbee/application.py", line 251, in load_network_info
    (nwk,) = await ezsp.getNodeId()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/bellows/ezsp/__init__.py", line 215, in _command
    return await self._protocol.command(name, *args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/bellows/ezsp/protocol.py", line 73, in command
    async with asyncio_timeout(EZSP_CMD_TIMEOUT):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/asyncio/timeouts.py", line 111, in __aexit__
    raise TimeoutError from exc_val
TimeoutError

### Additional information

This issue occured before updating to 2024, but then Home Assistant did not crash.
I am using a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 Plus V2 with a USB 2.0 extension cable.