Why are desktop icon positions for some files forgotten on restart

On restart/reboot some of the file icon positions are forgotten and the files reappear stacked over the startup drive icon. The remainder of the files on the desktop are in their correct/previous positions. Why are somefile locations not remembered?

Sounds like the .DS_Store invisible file is corrupt. That is my wild guess. There is a .DS_Store invisible file for each folder that the Finder visits. It is where the Finder stores this position information.
NOTE: The following suggestions will cause the Finder to forget the positions of everything in the target folder, but after that the Finder should be able to remember going forward. If you have some icons in the correct positions and you do not want to forget where they were, you should take a screen shot, or create a map (with pencil and paper), or other way to memorize where they were.
There are utilities that can toggle the Finder internal settings to display invisible files, and then reset the settings so they are again hidden (you would trash the .DS_Store of the misbehaving folder while it was visible, then reloaunch the Finder or reboot, but a Finder relaunch is faster).
There are Terminal commands that can be used to just remove the .DS_Store file.
The killall Finder is needed to relaunch the Finder. You could also use Apple menu icon -> Force Quit... -> Finder -> Relaunch.
If a folder does not have a .DS_Store when the Finder opens the folder, the Finder will create a new one and assigns all the icons a default position. Then you should be able to reposition the icons as you desire, and it should remember them from that point forward.

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