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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)

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[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its useful for fixing a Windows install after fixing a bad ram. Sometimes the utility gets corrupted so you need to fix it first.

I think it would be a great idea if some of the immutable Linux distros had a integrity checker like sfc

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

I think on mutable distros, or at least arch, you can run a command to reinstall all installed packages, which will verify integrity of the package files (signatures) and then ensure the files in the filesystem match package files? And I think it takes minutes at most, at least for typical setups.

I do think it's also possible to just verify integrity of all files installed from a package, but I don't remember if it required an external utility, pretty sure it's on the arch wiki under pacman/tips and tricks

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

When I was doing tech support I was using it a ton. I had a fleet of machines that issues with SSDs and ram

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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.