So I was wondering, is there a place you can make the --debug flag output to or if there was a default location besides the terminal itself?

Like the title says pacman -Syu is occasionally hard locking the computer forcing a power cycle. After restarting the computer the update will go fine after deleting the archives that are corrupted from the failed update.

It always hangs in the :: Running post-transaction hooks... part of the update. This time it hung specifically on the ( 3/19) Reloading system manager configuration...

I have tried to redirect the debug output like: pacman -Syu --debug >> ~/Desktop/pacdebug.txt but it seems that I only get the standard upgrade output.

Is there some other tool or steps I can use to investigate this?

This has been happening since I upgraded to KDE 6 but I don’t think it’s directly related to KDE it’s just when it started.

Thanks!

Update for future peoples:

At this point I’m relatively sure that I had broken my kernel. I switched to a different kernel and the pacman freezing has stopped. Still testing but so far I’m pretty confident that was the issue as it has been several days without issue.

To future peoples that might be having a similar issue try a different kernel and if the issue is resolved, remove the broken kernel + kernel headers and reinstall it.

    • @disheveledWallabyOP
      2•2 months ago

      pacman -Syu --debug >& ~/Desktop/pacdebug.txt

      Looks like that will almost work, I need to answer :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] and possibly other questions. Do you think that I should use the --noconfirm flag?

         --noconfirm
       Bypass any and all “Are you sure?” messages. It’s not a good idea to do this unless you want to run pacman from a script.
        • @disheveledWallabyOP
          3•2 months ago

          I’m going to wait for a couple days to see if anyone else has any ideas and use the time to do some more investigating. If all else fails I’ll just have to hope I get an update that doesn’t require an important intervention.

          Thanks again, your advice is much appreciated!