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inxcvizor

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Registered: 2026-02-19

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I'm worried

I updated my distro, and I made one big mistake, and that's doing it before bedtime. Since I'm still in school, I have to sleep early, and before I slept, it displayed the "The screen locker is broken" screen (apologies for redundancy), and I left the computer. When I woke up, my laptop still had the power light, but after I came back to my home, it ran out of power (the battery is already bad before I switched to linux). When i power it on, everything seems to work fine, BUT, I'm worried something might go wrong, so I'm asking, will something go wrong?

5hridhyan

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Registered: 2025-12-25

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Re: I'm worried

When i power it on, everything seems to work fine

Can you update normally now? Does running pacman -Syu give you any errors? you sure pacman finished its job before the battery died; No partial upgrades? if yes I guess you're good to go back and study

seth

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Re: I'm worried

Check the /var/log/pacman.log when the last update finished - if that was hours before the system lost power there's unlikely to be any problem and any mild filesystem corruption would have automatically been fixed on reboot.

sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup

will tell you whether there major file deviations (nb. that some single files will typically be altered, worst case is broken or missing mtrees)

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inxcvizor

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Registered: 2026-02-19

Posts: 23

Re: I'm worried

When i power it on, everything seems to work fine

Can you update normally now? Does running pacman -Syu give you any errors? you sure pacman finished its job before the battery died; No partial upgrades? if yes I guess you're good to go back and study

So far, everything's fine (hopefully).