vortexal @ vortexal @sopuli.xyz

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I tried that but the gaming communities that I looked at didn't seem to allow this type of post, so I don't know where else I can post it.

Like I said, I'm not having the issue anymore.

Also, I tried to check the smart info but the option is gray-out, is there something I need to do before I can check it?

I did that yesterday and it might have fixed it because I didn't have the issue but I did try multiple things yesterday, so I'm not sure.

I'm not having the issue anymore, I'm not sure what fixed it though as I tried multiple things yesterday.

Also, I'm not using an NVME, I'm actually just using an old laptop hard drive with one of those hard drive cases that basically converts it into an external hard drive.

I've already done that but thanks anyways.

I'm not concerned about Linux breaking, I'm concerned about the laptop itself. My last laptop stopped being able to boot into any OS or even enter the bios after I was repeatedly restarting it one day and my laptop before that has a problem where for some reason the screen gets dark spots if it's turned on more than once a day. I also have another laptop that has a failing GPU and another that for some reason can't read internal hard drives anymore. In the off chance that Linux does have problems, I am already prepared for that but as I said, I'm more concerned about the laptop. We've had it for over 5 years and we really can't afford a new one.

That's pretty specific, but I guess it's possible.

Oops, anyways it seems to have been found this time. I did reinstall it already but I wont know if it fixed the issue until tonight.

It's probably just paranoia but every laptop I've ever owned has had a problem pertaining to repeatedly turning them off and on again. This laptop is my mom's and I'm just using it because my old one stopped working and I really don't want to break this one too.

I know about and have used apt, I install pretty much everything through the terminal. What I searched for was "how to reinstall libpcre" because I thought that it required a specific method or something due to the fact that it's a system library.

Anyways, it reinstalled it but I wont know if it fixed the issue until tonight.

Ok, so Synaptic Package Manager states that it's installed in the exact location you say that it's supposed to be in but ldd states "No such file or directory". What's going on here?

I wont know until tonight.

Synaptic Package Manager states that there are several versions of libpcre2 installed, which one should I try to reinstall?

I tried seaching it online but the only I could find (that I understood how to use it) was to run "sudo ldconfig" which didn't seem to day anything. I have no idea if that actually fixed the problem or not but if it didn't, do you have any other solutions?

Apt says it's installed. Someone said something about reinstalling it but I couldn't find anything online about reinstalling.

I don't have a backup of the system because if something happens, I'm switching distros. But I do have both an external hard drive and Pcloud for cloud storage for some other things like game save files.

How would I reinstall it? I tried to look it up but I couldn't find anything.

I don't know what the previous version was but I'll still post about it to the forums. Thanks.

I have no idea what those are, unless Linux Mint (at least the XFCE edition) has one of those installed by default, I'm pretty sure I don't have any of those installed.

I'm using the XFCE edition of Linux Mint. The Kernel updated yesterday morning, could that have something to do with it?