[close04]

> Whatever the initial problem was is likely to still present after reboot

You only know this after the reboot. Reboot to fix the issue and if it comes back then you know you have to dig deeper. Why sink hours of effort into fixing a random bit flip? I'll take the opposite position and say that especially for consumer devices most issues are caused by some random event resulting in a soft error. They're very common and if they happen you don't "troubleshoot" that.

[ssl-3]

With any system: When I can find and correct the problem out of the gate, then it remains corrected the issue does not recur.