Homelab Hero · No. 017: your result

Second-best call. 40 Hero Points.

Defensible for a transient fault — a wedged daemon or a half-applied update can clear on a fresh boot, and that earns the partial credit. But a crash loop caused by the image itself just loops again after the reboot, and meanwhile every other container on the host bounced with it. You spent the whole stack's uptime to learn what one log read would have told you.

The lesson: A host restart treats transients, not causes. Check the failing container's logs before bouncing everything behind it.

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