Dell Inspiron 5675
Everything works great, login (Tor, Firefox) with LAN and remote.
Running Bitcoin Node, NextCloud, Core Lightning
Every 1 to 2 days the server turns off or stays running but no one home (cannot connect with Kiosk or headless). If I do a hard shutdown and restart it is back and going like nothing happened.
Are you leaving a monitor connected full time? You may try disconnecting the monitor, and reboot the server with no monitor attached. Give that a try, and let us know if it makes a difference.
Other things to check here are:
SSH into the server and capture sudo journalctl -xefa and see the latest thing that happens before it becomes unresponsive.
Is it actually completely shutting down?
Check that the output on your power supply matches the input on the plug of your machine.
The system is headless
It is random. Just in case I cleaned the heat sink and applied new thermal paste. It is working so far
To make sure it’s not overheating, is a good place to start. If it does it again, power-cycle the device, and pull that log George suggested. That will give you some clues as to what’s going on.
Well it did it again…its about 24 hrs and goes dead (server appears to stays on). No ability to log on. setting up kiosk does not work (no power to usb or hdmi).
I really appreciate yalls help. Overall, this has been a lot of fun…especially since I knew nothing about servers or really operating systems before this.
Hi there!
If you set up SSH before encountering this issue, you should try connecting via SSH to see if it works. If you have not then not much more You can do.
Thanks again to George, Rexter, and Homer for always helping the knuckle dragger.
I have successfully set up SSH and am in the journal.
I am expecting the server to shut down in the next few hours or so.
Once the server goes dead (on its own), will the SSH log show what happened historically once I log back into SSH after restart?
The server shut completely off this time after approx 36 hours of run time.
Is there a way to see historical logs with SSH?
After restarting the server and connecting via SSH it is only showing activity from point I restarted.
Hi SBC!
First off, when this happens, check start.local or the server’s IP address in your browser to see if it’s in diagnostic mode. If you still get nothing, try SSH’ing in and run:
sudo journalctl -xefa
Make sure to do this before rebooting the server—you might get more info on what’s going on.
Is there a way to preserve/record the ssh log if the system goes down so it can be recalled after crash?
I did notice that in the BIOS, deep sleep control was active. Wonder if that caused the operating system to shut down over time. I disabled it.
That sounds like a good possibility. Not sure about all the possibilities with the logs beyond just reading them. If you scroll back through your system logs, look to see if there is any evidence from the previous crashes
I think my DIY server is snake bit…may need to start over from scratch
Now I am getting StartOS launch error:
Wifi Internal Error
wlp5s0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device
Update. Due the the instability in my system, I decided to take it apart, reformat all drives, cleaned everything, put it all back together and reload StartOS from scratch.
Everything seems to be good to go.
If I have a failure at this point, I am going to throw it all in a dumpster and buy a Start9 Server. 
