[Satellite 6.10] Satellite upgrade fails due to orphaned RPMs: rubygem-sinatra, rubygem-rack-protection

Environment

• Satellite 6.10 and newer.

Issue

• Satellite upgrade fails due to orphaned/left-over RPMs: rubygem-sinatra, rubygem-rack-protection.

Resolution

• Take a backup/snapshot of the Satellite server.
• Remove the orphaned RPMs:

# rpm -ev --nodeps rubygem-sinatra-1.4.7-3.el7sat.noarch rubygem-rack-protection-1.5.3-4.el7sat.noarch

• If you encounter yum dependency errors related tfm-rubygem* packages then please have a look at: Red Hat Satellite server upgrade to version 6.10 failed with multiple tfm-rubygem package dependency errors.

• For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Installation/Upgrade/Update Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Installation/Upgrade/Update Issues.

Root Cause

• Orphaned/left-over RPMs from old Satellite versions.
• For more information please refer to This content is not included.BZ 1919194 and This content is not included.BZ 2024978.

Diagnostic Steps

• Snippet of the failed yum transaction:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:rubygem-sinatra-1.4.7-3.el7sat.noarch (@rhel-7-server-satellite-6.4-rpms)
           Requires: rubygem(rack-protection) >= 1.4.0
           Removing: rubygem-rack-protection-1.5.3-4.el7sat.noarch (@rhel-7-server-satellite-6.4-rpms)
               rubygem(rack-protection) = 1.5.3
           Obsoleted By: satellite-common-6.10.1-2.el7sat.noarch (rhel-7-server-satellite-6.10-rpms)
               Not found
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disabled repos and searching for missing dependencies.
To enable this functionality please set 'notify_only=0' in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/search-disabled-repos.conf
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Error: Package: 1:rubygem-sinatra-1.4.7-3.el7sat.noarch (@rhel-7-server-satellite-6.4-rpms)
           Requires: rubygem(rack-protection) >= 1.4.0
           Removing: rubygem-rack-protection-1.5.3-4.el7sat.noarch (@rhel-7-server-satellite-6.4-rpms)
               rubygem(rack-protection) = 1.5.3
           Obsoleted By: satellite-common-6.10.1-2.el7sat.noarch (rhel-7-server-satellite-6.10-rpms)
               Not found
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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