wiki: add troubleshooting article on /var/run heartbeat reboot false alarm

Captures the majorlab incident where the backup watchdog emailed a missing
heartbeat after a kernel-update reboot wiped /var/run, even though the
backup had actually completed cleanly. Documents the tmpfs root cause and
the fix of storing heartbeats under /var/lib instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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created: 2026-03-15T06:37
updated: 2026-04-08
updated: 2026-04-13T10:10
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# 🔧 General Troubleshooting
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- [Gitea Actions Runner: Boot Race Condition Fix](gitea-runner-boot-race-network-target.md)
- [Systemd Session Scope Fails at Login (`session-cN.scope`)](systemd/session-scope-failure-at-login.md)
- [MajorWiki Setup & Publishing Pipeline](majwiki-setup-and-pipeline.md)
- [Cron Heartbeat False Alarm: /var/run Cleared by Reboot](cron-heartbeat-tmpfs-reboot-false-alarm.md)
## 🔒 SELinux
- [SELinux: Fixing Dovecot Mail Spool Context (/var/vmail)](selinux-dovecot-vmail-context.md)