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I don't think lack of precaution was the issue here given that it was an unexpected power failure, but it is a fairly easy fix with a chroot.
Oh agreed! That's why I'm with OP actually that arch might not be the right distro to go for.
The person I replied to basically said "that's what you deserve for not doing it properly" if I understood it correctly - that's what I'm confused about as well.
Yeah it seems half the commenters missed OP's clarifying comment and just think he started a kernel update with 2% battery life.
Hehe true. And even that happened to me after a couple of tired "Syu enter". But then again I learned something new with nearly every repair!
If you know your battery is shot and you don’t have a way to save your install if the power goes out, then you just don’t update. There are plenty of ways to protect against this that have already been mentioned (battery backup, backup kernel, etc). OP was just playing with fire.
That's kind of overzealous. I would expect most desktop users to run kernel updates without being plugged into a UPS, this is functionally identical. It's not like it's an unrecoverable error, but yeah if you're updating a critical system you should have redundancies in place.