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.~~