I am a certified Linux user with almost 10 years of experience.

Please run the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Let me know if this fixes your issue

- certified Linux expert

(I’m making fun of the 25 year Microsoft veterans on the support page that tell users to run SFC /scannow)

  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.com
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    3 months ago

    Very often sfc /scannow will ask for an installation media, which, in a corporate environment, means sending the machine to onsite support for either “fixing” or “reimaging”. It’s basically the command you should try first if you don’t want to help someone fixing the issue. “See? There is something wrong with your installation, you should fix that before doing anything else…”

    I used that trick a few times myself to get rid of poorly behaving people.

  • xylogx@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I remember when SFC was first introduced, I excitedly wrote a script to invoke it remotely so I could use it on a user’s pc when they called to fix their problem. To this day I have never run that script. This was in 1998.

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      3 months ago

      SFC has worked numerous times for me, usually for botched updates. Haven’t used it in a long time after leaving tech support

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        3 months ago

        I’ve tried using SFC multiple times and had it work zero times. One time after SFC failed to find anything wrong, I ended up fixing the machine by replacing the system file with a copy from a working machine.