dnf/yum command gives package conflict or none of the providers can be installed error

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Issue

  • dnf/yum update returns following error.
Problem 1: package authselect-compat-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect(x86-64) = 1.2.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both authselect-1.2.2-2.el8.x86_64 and authselect-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package authselect-compat-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package authselect-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
 Problem 2: package cockpit-bridge-238.2-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with cockpit-storaged < 233 provided by cockpit-storaged-224.2-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-storaged-224.2-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-bridge-224.2-1.el8.x86_64

Resolution

  • From Red Hat Satellite webui, sync both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) repositories to download all latest packages.
  Content ---> Sync status
  • Once sync is completed, promote and publish a new version of the content view associated to the host.
  Content ---> Content views

To find the content view associated, run following command from the host.

  # subscription-manager identity
  • Finally, perform following steps on the host.
  # yum clean all
  # yum repolist
  # yum update

NOTE: For modular dependency problems see the article to include all Modular streams.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Client Subscription Issues

Root Cause

  • Either repositories are not up to date or the associated content view is not promoted or published after a successful sync.

Diagnostic Steps

  • More errors:
# yum update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Tools                                                                                                                   122 kB/s |  19 kB     00:00
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs)                                                                     9.9 MB/s | 1.8 MB     00:00
Red Hat Satellite Tools 6.7 for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs)                                                                    931 kB/s | 147 kB     00:00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)                                                                    87 MB/s |  34 MB     00:00
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)                                                                 72 MB/s |  26 MB     00:00
EPEL-RHEL8                                                                                                               43 MB/s |  10 MB     00:00
Error:
 Problem 1: package authselect-compat-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect(x86-64) = 1.2.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both authselect-1.2.2-2.el8.x86_64 and authselect-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package authselect-compat-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package authselect-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
 Problem 2: package python3-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch requires platform-python-pip = 9.0.3-18.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both platform-python-pip-9.0.3-19.el8.noarch and platform-python-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package platform-python-pip-9.0.3-18.el8.noarch
 Problem 3: package fprintd-pam-1.90.0-0.20191121gitf022902.el8.x86_64 requires authconfig, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-compat-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect(x86-64) = 1.2.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-compat-1.0-13.el8.x86_64 requires authselect(x86-64) = 1.0-13.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-compat-1.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect(x86-64) = 1.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect-libs(x86-64) = 1.2.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-1.0-13.el8.x86_64 requires authselect-libs(x86-64) = 1.0-13.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package authselect-1.1-2.el8.x86_64 requires authselect-libs(x86-64) = 1.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both authselect-libs-1.2.2-2.el8.x86_64 and authselect-libs-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install both authselect-libs-1.2.2-2.el8.x86_64 and authselect-libs-1.0-13.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install both authselect-libs-1.2.2-2.el8.x86_64 and authselect-libs-1.1-2.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package fprintd-pam-1.90.0-0.20191121gitf022902.el8.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package authselect-libs-1.2.1-2.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
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