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Crashes on start: libprotobuf-lite.so.30.2.0: cannot open shared object file

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Description

### Custom Node Testing

- [x] I have tried disabling custom nodes and the issue persists (see [how to disable custom nodes](https://docs.comfy.org/troubleshooting/custom-node-issues#step-1%3A-test-with-all-custom-nodes-disabled) if you need help)

### Expected Behavior

Greetings,
after some time I decided to start up ComfyUI as usual, but were instantly faced with a crash.

### Actual Behavior

Apparently, a protobuf versions higher than 30.2 do not work and result in an instant crash during startup. I tried updating my system, replacing protobuf with the git version, manually reinstalling ComfUI, refreshing system libraries with sudo `ldconfig` and deactivating any nodes.
Unfortunately, I can not roll back to version 30.2.

### Steps to Reproduce

Start ComfyUI as usual with the protobuf version 31.1 installed, no other options needed.

### Debug Logs

```powershell
$ python main.py
Checkpoint files will always be loaded safely.
Total VRAM 9875 MB, total RAM 28744 MB
pytorch version: 2.8.0.dev20250612+cu128
Enabled fp16 accumulation.
Set vram state to: NORMAL_VRAM
Device: cuda:0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 : cudaMallocAsync
Using async weight offloading with 2 streams
Using pytorch attention
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/main.py", line 129, in
import execution
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/execution.py", line 13, in
import nodes
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/nodes.py", line 22, in
import comfy.diffusers_load
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/comfy/diffusers_load.py", line 3, in
import comfy.sd
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/comfy/sd.py", line 27, in
from . import model_detection
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/comfy/model_detection.py", line 2, in
import comfy.supported_models
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/comfy/supported_models.py", line 8, in
import comfy.text_encoders.sd3_clip
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/comfy/text_encoders/sd3_clip.py", line 3, in
from transformers import T5TokenizerFast
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py", line 2045, in __getattr__
module = self._get_module(self._class_to_module[name])
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py", line 2075, in _get_module
raise e
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py", line 2073, in _get_module
return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.__name__)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/transformers/models/t5/tokenization_t5_fast.py", line 28, in
from .tokenization_t5 import T5Tokenizer
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/transformers/models/t5/tokenization_t5.py", line 23, in
import sentencepiece as spm
File "/run/media/tmpotratz/9fa0f123-fc70-4efe-a5c1-f928ce470f1e/AI/ComfyUI/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/sentencepiece/__init__.py", line 10, in
from . import _sentencepiece
ImportError: libprotobuf-lite.so.30.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```

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