I have a server running Debian 12. It seems to hang up and freeze sometime between 12 hours and like 2-3 days. I really want to see what’s happening, but I can’t access my containers with the web UIs, can SSH, and adding a monitor shows the DE completely frozen. Rebooting fixes it for a while, but it locks up again after some time.
I had the same issue with 10 year old hardware so I threw together a “new” machine with some spare parts and it still happens I also tried rocky Linux and the same thing happened on both machines.
Any help and direction would be greatly appreciated!
A few decades ago I bought a used IBM as a *nix server, but it would lock up at nearly random intervals like you describe. Tried a different Linux distro… same issues. Tried BSD - same issues!
It wasn’t until after I learned of the 1999-2007 capacitor plague that I inspected the motherboard and saw that yes, several of the capacitories were bulging.
https://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html
I mailed the motherboard to a servicer who replaced all the capacitors for a nominal fee. After that it was a rock solid system. You mention that this is recent hardware, but I would still suggest taking a peek at those caps.
