Unable to boot after system update (kmod: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

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I’d say, return to the chroot environment, and reinstall zlib, but overwrite any conflicts. That way, if there is something wrong with the file, they’ll be replaced.

pamac reinstall zlib --overwite="/usr/lib/*,/usr/lib32/*"