DHCP Fail After Reboot With Error: "dracut-initqueue: dhclient: error while loading shared libraries: libdns-export.so.1102: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" (Doc ID 2738755.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

After performing an upgrade the system fail to configure the interface.

The boot logs show:

Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: Reached target Network (Pre).
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: Starting LSB: Bring up/down networking...
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> network: Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> network: Bringing up interface ens3:
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> network: Determining IP information for ens3.../sbin/dhclient: error while loading shared libraries: libdns-export.so.1102: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> network: failed.
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> network: [FAILED]
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: Unit network.service entered failed state.
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: network.service failed.
Dec 2 12:30:56 <HOSTNAME> systemd: Reached target Network.

Running dracut in debug mode show the error:

dracut-install: ln -s 'libcap-ng.so.0.0.0' '/var/tmp/dracut.48AgII/initramfs/lib64/libcap-ng.so.0'
dracut-install: Lib install: '/lib64/libcap-ng.so.0'
dracut-install: dracut_install('/lib64/libcap-ng.so', '/lib64/libcap-ng.so')
dracut-install: dracut_install('//libcap-ng.so.0', '//libcap-ng.so.0')
dracut-install: dracut_install('//libcap-ng.so', '//libcap-ng.so')
dracut-install: ldd: ' libdns-export.so.1102 => not found                    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
dracut-install: '
dracut-install: ldd: ' libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f35baaa2000)
dracut-install: '
dracut-install: dracut_install('/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2', '/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2')
dracut-install: hash hit items for '/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2'

Changes

The upgrade to the kernel generate a new initarmfs.

Cause

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