Failed update killed the system - I tried all I could find

Try reinstalling librsvg.
That seems to help -
what I understood:
the file name changed from
libpixbufloader-svg.so
to
libpixbufloader_svg.so
and some cache update wasn’t triggered
which the reinstallation will do.

sudo pacman -S --asdeps librsvg

I didn’t have problems - others had …