I set up a pumpkin/melon farm on a realm and used a hopper minecart to collect the drops. Every so often, when the hopper is emptied and is supposed to start, it moves a distance of about half a block and then stops.
This is not dependent on chunk loading or chunk eborders. The minecart never crosses a chunk border, and I have seen this happen when I am 2 blocks away in the same chunk.
Attached below are screenshots of both the stopped minecart and the start/stop circuit.
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Minecraft Realms for Java Edition has received a lot of updates and fixes over the last two years, so this issue has probably already been fixed in the meantime (e.g. because it was a temporary outage or an issue with the base game).
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