When this happens and the screens go blank there is nothing I can do. I try to power off the computer by just tapping the physical power button but then it spits this out at me:
After that I have to hold down the phsyical power button for a few seconds to hard shut down.
Then if I try to boot my PC back up it doesn’t see the nvme drive or sometimes see’s the drive but can’t open rEFInd (meaning I have to go into liveISO and run refind-install --use-default) and boots straight to windows instead (windows is on a different nvme drive).
To remedy this I usually have to disconnect and re-connect the nvme drive containing my CachyOS install. I should note it’s an external nvme drive connected via USB-C.
I’m desperately hoping someone can help solve this issue?
EDIT: Adding to this a pastebin of journalctl output from around the time of the last occurrence of this issue