Kernel panics on boot after printing "/init: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd-shared-239.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On reboot, after a kernel update, the system crashes while booting the latest kernel after printing the following message on the console

    /init: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd-shared-239.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill init" exitcode=0x00007f00

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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