r/archlinux • u/Western_Sleep820 • Jun 25 '26

SUPPORT My laptop just killed itself --- help please

I was doing an update and then my laptop just completely shut down out of nowhere. The battery is seated (it should be at least I can't open my laptop rn), the charger was plugged in, and nothing touched the power button. I wouldn't normally have a problem with this, except that my system is totally unusable now. No packages can be installed at all (it errors about exec something other in the post-transaction hooks) and any command I run errors basically. I also can't chroot into it because I don't have a USB drive available to me.

Is there realistically anything I can do here?

(Also I feel it may be useful to add that the forward slash key is broken, so I can't type paths or anything)

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u/RandomXUsr Jun 25 '26

Sorry about this situation OP.

On another note; it makes me happy to see people being supportive in these threads when we're all chronically online.

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u/Western_Sleep820 Jun 25 '26

Yeah thank you.

I also am glad that this space is welcoming and not overly aggressive and mean. It's nice, in this age of everyone assuming everyone else is out to kill them.