On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:00 PM Robin Broda via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you try blindly typing a command, like `poweroff`, when this happens - > to see whether the device indeed powers off? > > This would confirm whether user input is still being taken or not, > which helps debugging this substantially. > Thank you for the suggestion. I have tried this, but the computer is actually not working anymore. For instance, I was in the process of a pacman update, but the update terminated. I can tell because there was no more hard drive activity, and the same package that was being downloaded when the computer froze needed to be downloaded again.