zypper broken: what can I do to fix it?

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#1

Not sure if this should be this forum or ‘Applications’, so forgive me if I’ve chosen wrong.

After my last update (tumbleweed), invoking zypper gives me:

zypper: relocation error: zypper: symbol _ZN4zypp5CpeId11NoThrowType13lastMalformedB5cxx11E, version ZYPP_plain not defined in file libzypp.so.1600 with link time reference

Which is bad.
How should I even start to fix this? I haven’t had to even consider a problem with the package manager since the dark days of 10.X.

Any help MUCH appreciated.

HC57

#2

That does look bad and my guess is that it’s a bug in the code you can’t address.
Recommend submitting a bug immediately to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org

TSU

#3

I’ll submit a bug report, but I did manage a fix (I think: I don’t get an error, but until there is an update available I won’t know for sure)

In case anyone else has the problem, this is what I did:

1: Go to https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=✓&q=zypp&search_devel=false&search_unsupported=false&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A42.2

  1. Download the rpms for zypper, libzypp, python-zypp (not sure that last was required), for Tumbleweed.

  2. sudo rpm --force -hiv libzypp-16.3.2-1.1.x86_64.rpm python-zypp-0.7.3-1.13.x86_64.rpm zypper-1.13.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm

That was a few sphincter tightening minutes. :slight_smile:

#4

My current practice with Tumbleweed, is to do:

# zypper up libsolv-tools libzypp zypper rpm

before I do the “zypper dup”. That way, the update tools are updated first.

It often says “nothing to do” or similar with that preliminary command. But that’s okay.

#5

Heh, someone else that updates zypper/rpm manually first. You can recover zypper as long as rpm still works …