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My laptop, Core i5 6200U, was previously having problems running and was often freezing with no way out except going into shell doing a reboot. I thought maybe some of my system files were corrupt I did a system upgrade "pacman -Su" to see if that would fix my problems. Unfortunately my computer froze during the upgrade, I gave it ten minutes and with no sign of hope, I rebooted. This made my corrupted my system and put me in the emergency shell with no keyboard access. I booted into a live CD and tried reinstalling the basic packages, base, and linux, linux-firmware. It appeared that multiple files inside the lib and bin directories were corrupt returning "[filename].so is empty, was not checked" so I deleted the two directories (yes, I realize now this was a very foolish move of me) and tried installing the basic packages again. It appeared to do absolutely nothing except for the fact that I could no longer chroot into the corrupt system because "bin/bash" was missing.
Should I just start fresh and do a reinstall or is there a way I can recover from this cataclysmic mess that I got myself into?
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It is recoverable. Follow Pacman#Pacman_crashes_during_an_upgrade
As you can not chroot in replace 4 with:
pacman --root=/mnt --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -Syusimilarly adjust 6.
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