Odroid C4 randomly shutting down

Hi.
I have an Odroid C4 running DietPi v9.4. I use this as a Home Assistant, Obsidian Sync and Postgres server.

Unfortunately, I’m having some stability issues. The system randomly shuts down after running for some amount of days. The blue LED stops blinking, and only the red one is on. It’s always random. Sometimes it runs for a few weeks, sometimes just for a few days. It’s incredibly annoying.

An even bigger issue is that I have absolutely no idea what’s wrong and can’t debug it either. dmesg reports no errors. I tried turning on full logging using dietpi-software, but the logs did not contain any fatal errors, nor kernel panics. Although I’m assuming that if it is a kernel panic, it won’t be logged anywhere. I can’t check the display output - I don’t have a monitor with an HDMI connector.

At one point I disabled RAM logging too, because I thought that the logs are getting too big (especially because HA does a lot of verbose logging), and that might be causing some issues. I thought that fixed it. Until today, I had to unplug it again.

I had the same issue with an older version of DietPi about a year ago. After reinstalling it, everything was working perfectly fine for a very long time. But I don’t want to reinstall it all the time. I wanna know what’s wrong.

I’m using the stock power adapter. But I think it’s a software-related issue.

It’s nearly impossible to investigate without logs or error messages

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