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

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    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.

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      You’ll break things if you do more and more stuff suggested inside this thread without testing it. Maybe executing ldconfig was enough, but if you try more and more stuff you don’t know what you did. Linux is very hard to break, especially when you didn’t mess around with things like packages and libraries by yourself, there’s mostly a way back. But if you’re scared use the time and make a backup and a live USB stick with a Linux distro of your choice to rescue the system if something’s terribly messed up.

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        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.