yum update --security is failing with the error message ' Package: subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6) Requires: subscription-manager = 0.99.19.4-1.el6_3'

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Issue

• yum update --security is failing with the following error message

--> Processing Dependency: subscription-manager = 0.99.19.4-1.el6_3 for package: subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
           Requires: subscription-manager = 0.99.19.4-1.el6_3
           Removing: subscription-manager-0.99.19-1.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201206132210.x86_64/6.3)
               subscription-manager = 0.99.19-1.el6
           Updated By: subscription-manager-1.1.23.1-1.el6_4.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 1.1.23.1-1.el6_4
           Available: subscription-manager-0.95.11-1.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.95.11-1.el6
           Available: subscription-manager-0.95.14-1.el6_1.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.95.14-1.el6_1
           Available: subscription-manager-0.95.17-1.el6_1.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.95.17-1.el6_1
           Available: subscription-manager-0.96.17-1.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.96.17-1.el6
           Available: subscription-manager-0.96.18-1.el6_2.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.96.18-1.el6_2
           Available: subscription-manager-0.99.19.2-1.el6_3.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.99.19.2-1.el6_3
           Available: subscription-manager-0.99.19.3-1.el6_3.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.99.19.3-1.el6_3
           Available: subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 0.99.19.4-1.el6_3
           Available: subscription-manager-1.1.23-1.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               subscription-manager = 1.1.23-1.el6
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Resolution

Remove subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19-1.el6.x86_64 as it is deprecated.

rpm -e subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19-1.el6.x86_64 --nodeps

Then try to execute

# yum update --security

Root Cause

There was an RFE(Request for Feature Enhancement) to rename subscription-manager-gnome to subscription-manager-gui. So after subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19-1.el6.x86_64 the package name changed to subscription-manager-gui-1.x.x. There was a security errata released for subscription-manager(http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0788.html) after this rename. So when you execute yum update --security, yum tried to update all the subscription-manager packages to version 1.1.23.1-1.el6_4, but there isn't any updated subscription-manager-gnome package with the errata, and that caused the dependency error.

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