The CI runner's Docker daemon crashed mid-build and refuses to start. Release is blocked. Get us shipping again.

Everyone reaches for reinstall. The disciplined path is one journal file, four failure signatures, and an explicit decision about whether this host deserves surgery at all.

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Everyone reaches for reinstall. The disciplined path is one journal file, four failure signatures, and an explicit decision about whether this host deserves surgery at all.

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Next in this trackSame-node pod calls work, cross-node calls time out, and small probes pass while real requests hang. Find the break.Next in this trackA rolling update stalls halfway: new replicas crash-loop and old ones are already scaled down. What are your first moves?Next in this trackAll stages green except the production deploy, which failed three runs in a row. Nobody changed anything. Where do you dig first?

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