Newly installed Kernel panic with " FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/<kernel version>/modules/modules.dep: no such- file or directory"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System panics on reboot with the message " FATAL: could not load /lib/modules//modules/modules.dep"
  • System unable to reboot after updating the initrd with vmware tools.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • VMware tools 8.6.10 to 8.6.11

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