My system seems to crash from time to time. I still don’t know what causes it.
If I leave it untouched for a few hours, sometimes, it crashes.
To resume, I have to force a reboot by unplugging the power cable (not even pressing the power button for N seconds seems to work).
Then, it seems to work just fine (after displaying some error messages about lost or orphaned inodes at boot). Until, one day, it happens again. When? I never know. It seems to follow some strange and unpredictable pattern.
Where should I start investigating?
Others have you on the right track, I’ll just mention the magic SysRq key
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key