OCI: Instance Unable to Boot With Kernel Panic Error “/lib64/libksplice_helper.so: file too short”

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later 

Linux x86-64 

Symptoms 

Instance unable to boot after upgrading the ksplice-helper package to version “ksplice-helper-1.0.61-1.el7.x86_64.rpm” and it reports following kernel panic message. 

--Console Log-- 
[ 6.138592] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00 
[ 6.140801] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.4.17-2136.321.4.el7uek.x86_64 #2 
[ 6.142989] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.5.1 06/16/2021 
[ 6.145182] Call Trace: 
[ 6.146125] dump_stack+0x6d/0x8d 
[ 6.147251] panic+0x115/0x301 
[ 6.148319] do_exit+0xaad/0xc1d 
[ 6.149456] ? __do_page_fault+0x1ee/0x4d1 
[ 6.150798] do_group_exit+0x3f/0x9f 
[ 6.152032] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x18/0x18 
[ 6.153395] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x1e4 
[ 6.154628] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x175/0x0 
[ 6.156186] RIP: 0033:0x7fe083518fe1 
[ 6.157429] Code: 00 00 41 b8 3c 00 00 00 eb 18 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1d f4 48 89 d7 44