How to solve “Kernel panic – not syncing – Attempted to kill init” — without erasing any user data

I was trying to update libc in our Ubuntu server but it failed and now when I reboot the server I get a error message:

Kernel panic – not syncing – Attempted to kill init!

and it just hangs.

What is the solution to this problem? The server is used by 10 people so I don’t want to reinstall erasing their data.

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