Pamac freezes system while installing or removing packages

[Hanzel]

A good start to find why would be the journal:

[HowTo] Find error logs

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ The first step for troubleshooting an issue is to find an error log: a trace produced by an application when failing/crashing, and providing the first trail a user/developer can follow to fix it. 1. Reach a usable system Obviously, it will be impossible to acquire those logs if you can’t have access to a usable system. See: [HowTo] Reach a minimal system 2. Find the faulty application If you don’t know which application failed – this is usually the case on a system or gra…

Specifically, journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=3 --catalog would show all errors or worse in the log of the current session.

If the machine freezes only while running pamac following the log with journalctl --follow could show if there is a immediate issue specificly while running pamac.

Can you describe in more detail what happens when your system freezes? is it temporary, does mouse movement still happen, can you switch to other active applications etc.