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When I shutdown my computer last night, it gave me this error message. It seems to be working fine but should I be considered? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure what fixed it because I tried multiple things yesterday, but it shutdown normally last night.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd reinstall libpcre, looks like it's gotten broken?

The kernel panic should be a direct result of shutdown (which I guess at this point is init/pid1) not finding its dependency and killing itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

apt install --reinstall PKG_NAME

Is the command to reinstall a package, replace PKG_NAME with the name of the package you want to reinstall.

You should use apt instead of apt-get. It is newer, more user friendly and supposedly handles dependency resolution better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I've already done that but thanks anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This command (could have) saved me lots of times, had I known it earlier. So far it has saved me once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

sudo apt-get install --reinstall

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apt+reinstall+package&t=fpas&ia=qa&iax=qa

Not sure how you searched but I assume you didn't use or know apt? How do you install packages in the first place? Through GUI or Terminal?

EDIT: I assume you use the Linux Mint GUI package manager. I can't find how to do this too, would need to search more detailed but I don't have enough time for this now, need sleep, don't have enough sleep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sometimes we think a little bit too complicated