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user77856

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Registered: 2022-11-12

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[SOLVED] I broke the entire system by installing openssl

Hello.
I have not updated the system for about 3 weeks.
I ran pacman -Sy openssl to install openssl.
Immediately after the installation almost all programs got broken because of missing dependency of libcrypto.so.
sudo, pacman, reboot, poweroff - all of them was printing:

error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After a hard reset (as I said even reboot command was broken, probably because it's executed using sudo), I booted into the system and got the same error message during the boot process:

error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I restore my system now?

Last edited by user77856 (2022-11-13 04:33:49)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke the entire system by installing openssl

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … nsupported

You will need to revert to the previous version of openssl via chroot.

Last edited by graysky (2022-11-12 13:18:28)

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke the entire system by installing openssl

Or better yet, use an external pacman, either from the ISO with the --root option or from pacman-static, to fully update the system.

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke the entire system by installing openssl

Mod note: Moving to NC.

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user77856

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Registered: 2022-11-12

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Re: [SOLVED] I broke the entire system by installing openssl

I solved it using pacman from ISO with --root option as Scimmia proposed.
Thanks!