Interrupted update

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I made an error on the recent large update. I neglected to plug in my laptop and the battery died before the update completed. After I plugged it in and ran zypper dup to finish the update, I get this error

zypper: error while loading shared libraries: librpm.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can I correct this error? Do I need a re-install? WiFi seems slow, too. So, there must be other errors lurking out there do to failed update.

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This was most likely not caused by the power loss, but as already discussed in several threads and bugreport by an issue with openssl-3 package.

Simply do a

sudo rpm -Uhv https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libzypp-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/zypper-1.14.68-1.3.x86_64.rpm https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm

to install the missing librpm.so.x again.
After that, repeat zypper dup

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219562

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Thank you for this solution. I scanned a thread about the problems with the update but stopped when I saw nothing about an interrupted update. This was a very big update and now works as it should.

Thanks again.

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I had to add https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm to the rpm args too as it complained about libprotobuf-lite.so.25.1.0()(64bit) is needed by libzypp-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64

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Would using ZYPP_SINGLE_RPMTRANS=1 have prevented this issue?

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I’ve also run into this issue. I’ve downloaded the RPMs listed above:

sudo rpm -Uhv https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libzypp-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/zypper-1.14.68-1.3.x86_64.rpm https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libzypp-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/zypper-1.14.68-1.3.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
	package libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64 is already installed

But am still greeted with the error:

zypper: error while loading shared libraries: librpm.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I feel like I must be missing something obvious?

Kernel: 6.4.2-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0
Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240209

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Because you did not install anything - rpm aborted due to attempt to install the same package version as is already present.

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Use the --force option when upgrading:

sudo rpm -Uhv --force pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
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Thanks. I solved the problem by repeatedly issuing the command:

rpm -Uhv ./libsolv-devel-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm && rpm -Uhv ./libzypp-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm && rpm -Uhv ./zypper-1.14.68-1.3.x86_64.rpm && rpm -Uhv ./libsolv-tools-0.7.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm && rpm -Uhv ./libzypp-devel-17.31.28-1.5.x86_64.rpm

Until all the dependency errors were resolved—which meant me hunting down every dependency. Inelegant, I suppose, but it worked.