It would be General Failure reading the disc. I would fsck him up, and replace disc if necessary.

Yes, I know those may be different oses, but I was thinking multiplatform

What are you reinstalling? New haos on old kvm? Old haos on new kvm? New deployment?

From the logs I read that your user chris has no rw perms within the haos.

Then what happened? What a cliffhanger! /s

I somehow missed this to be a flatpak via Discover. Granted this may not be usual in distros with a traditional update model, downgrading packages may be present in rolling distros, or distros with overlapping minor versions, or having 3rd party repos providing conflicting packages to those of the distro.

I offer my system as example:

The following product is going to be upgraded:
  openSUSE Tumbleweed  20240211-0 -> 20240313-0

The following 14 packages are going to be downgraded:
  ghc-binary ghc-containers ghc-deepseq ghc-directory ghc-exceptions ghc-mtl ghc-parsec ghc-pretty ghc-process ghc-stm ghc-template-haskell ghc-text ghc-time ghc-transformers

It is called “downgrading”, and it is not uncommon to have some packages downgrading when updating/upgrading a system, due to several reasons.

You know landlines are still in use, right?

That is why I also mentioned the latch/sensor, it may got stuck.

It sounds like the issue is with the lid latch/sensor, not with the graphics. Some laptops may not boot if the lid is closed, and some have options on the firmware to enable to boot when the lid is closed / on a docking station.

I sit exactly for this. I hate cleaning the splash, or the dirt the drying drops attract.

Public bathroom, is another history.

Yes. Don’t.