Hello
I’ve just ran a usual update however after downloading the packages and just after starting installing them, my laptop totally froze and I have manually shut it down
After booting it up again, all the boot process looks normal up until the point of “loading graphical interface” at which point it only shows underscore sign (which doesn’t blink) and stays like that forever.
I can’t switch to tty from there for some reason
I tried chrooting using liveusb and running the update in chroot but (after saying about db.lock file and me subsequently deleting the lock file to proceed) it only outputs “there’s nothing to do”
At this point I thought about manually reinstalling all the packages from my DE’s group (which in my case is KDE) however it didn’t solve the issue
I also tried running “e2fsck -p” on my drive but it just outputs “clean” and that’s it
My last backup is quite old (more than a month I think) so if there’s any way to fix the current state w/o rolling back to the backup, I’d like to try that first
Please tell me which logs to post if there is any need in them
One alternative thing you could try in arch-chroot is look at file /var/log/pacman.log to see what are the latest updates, and try to update them again.
But before that I’d recommend backing up to an external drive any personal data you have on the machine.
One idea is to backup all your personal data to an external drive, and then reinstall.
Sometimes trying to solve all hard-to-find problems will take much more time than a simple reinstall.
You also probably want to backup the list of packages you have currently installed. You can get the list e.g. like this:
