im on kde plasma and i was just playing osu!lazer when suddenly my laptop froze and gave me these
is this a serious concern? im letting it do its thing. idk whether to restart or do anything. slightly panicking.
P.S Other open programs are steam, brave, keepassxc, vesktop
im using LTS kernel
Seeing the BTRFS errors I would at least check the health of the drive.
can you help me achieve how to do that? also do i just restart my laptop? not sure if it’s safe to do it at it’s current state
Looks like you’ll have to use the live ISO and arch-chroot in order to run btrfs check and maybe some other things. I’ll leave it to someone who has way more knowledge about btrfs to help you.
Naively I would suspect that your drive died. In case there was any important data on it I’d recommend turning the device off and bring it to an expert to have any chance of recovering your data.
Otherwise follow the advice of @ricklinux and get a live ISO up and running, that way you can run health checks on your drive to confirm if that was the issue and or to provide more details for better assistance and debugging.
update: i tried doing the diagnostics test and upon checking on the storage option it says ‘no boot device found’ on both quick scan and extensive scan. so i begrudgingly exited out of diagnostics.
but here’s the thing, for some reason, bootloader showed up and it’s working again??
so i wanna ask you guys now that i have access to my system again (hopefully nothing bad happens again) on ways to check on the health of my btrfs filesystem or ssd (assuming that was the problem, i really have no clue)
Are you using btrs-assistant with snapper-support and btrfsmaintenance?
yep, i forgot if i had snapper support but aside from that yeah
Just wondered as i find btrfs very resilient and i haven’t had any issues but never had a crash like that.
ikr, i was very confused as well. maybe i had to update the system? idk it seems unlikely
High chance that your nvme ssd is broken! So if you have important data on it copy this immediately to another drive/thumbdrive
I would update the arch mirrors and then run an update. I just got the latest plasma update 6.1.4
i have everything related to my computer studies there. yeah i will back it up immediately
would it be safe to assume that i should avoid the LTS kernel for now or nah?
What do you mean? You booted into the regular current kernel?
Don’t reboot! back up first, high chance it won’t survive a second reboot
currently yeah, im using my laptop as well now. refer to the latest pic i sent. i was asking cause i wanted to take any kind of precautions and i wanted to know if avoiding LTS kernel is a valid option
Also I know this may sound silly but keep an eye on that battery level as it looks low. You may need to connect a power supply so it doesn’t switch off. That being said if the drive is a bit precarious this could cause the drive to shut off (or at least I have seen that happen once on a laptop), so copying anything important is first priority. Always have a backup. 
earlier, i managed to get in the system and backed up my files. a few minutes ago i was updating and it happened again. i think this is a faulty ssd now. i may be wrong but…
