Yes, there’s definitely something amiss, especially, but not limited to, booting up from actdead (charging screen) mode.
I mentioned some suspicions here: Saved Alarms and Timers Disappearing After Reboot - #13 by nephros
and I believe it’s because HOME is not available when it should.
My “canary service” is jolla-usersetup, if that shows up as failed after boot, other services are probably in a bad state as well.
Now jolla-usersetup launches /usr/bin/jolla-usersetup which is a very simple shell script, and AFAICS, the only way it can fail is when the home directory is not accessible.
(Also, rarely, both maliit-server and xt9-server crash, making VKB unavailable. The annoying thing about those two is that they require each other, and once one of the crashes, they perform a dance where one stops because the other crashed and the other way around. The only way I found to recover is to do “stop both, sleep 3 secs; start both”
This may be unrelated to the OP though. It also may be related to me having SpeechNote installed, not sure.)