13.1 can't boot after update - libgcrypt.so.11 missing - failed to start Journal System

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Hi,

I applied system patches and updates this morning on my openSUSE 13.1 box, and now cannot boot! :frowning:

After the updates/patches were finished, I tried to shutdown, and tried to reboot, using terminal commands, but received error that “libgcrypt.so.11” was missing. I searched with zypper, which told me it was installed. So I did a system reboot using Gnome Panel, which leads to the boot error:

“Failed to start Journal Service”.

#: systemclt status systemd-journald.service
error while loading shared libraries:  libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object or file: no such file or directory

I booted using the 13.1 Rescue CD and tried to pull /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt, but there was no such file on the root partition …

I see a few postings that something related to LVM encryption has caused related errors on other version of openSUSE, but my disks do not have LVM at all …

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Respectfully,

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I took this problem as a reason and opportunity to do a system upgrade, moving from 13.1 to 13.2 using the NET install CD. The upgrade went well, and solved the boot failure problem! :slight_smile:

After doing a system update following the version upgrade, and adding Packman repo, my box is back to normal … and it only took all of the afternoon … :wink:

Cheers,

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I updated 13.1 today. It rebooted just fine afterwards. So I’m unsure what went wrong with your update.

But I see you have solved the problem another way. So welcome to 13.2

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Thanks! We’ll see how long I stay on 13.2 … kinda’ have the itch to zypper dup to Tumbleweed … :slight_smile: I’m not using anything proprietary on my HTPC (opensource radeon driver, tvheadend, kodi, audacity). Do you think that it is safe to run Tumbleweed in this capacity?

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The chances are, that Tumbleweed will do very well. But you won’t know for sure until you try it.