More information: somewhere during the upgrade the following state is reached: - libdevmapper was upgraded to libdevmapper1_03-1.02.139-3.2 - libcrupsetup was upgraded to libcryptsetup4-1.7.5-1.2 - systemd was also upgraded to systemd-233-1.1 - device-mapper was still *not* upgraded and is at version device-mapper-1.02.78-0.14.1.2.x86_64 At that point I can see this: # rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.03 libdevmapper1_03-1.02.139-3.2.x86_64 # rpm -qf /lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.03 device-mapper-1.02.78-0.14.1.2.x86_64 Updating device-mapper removes /lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.03 and make systemctl works again.