Leapp upgrade utility fails to resolve ansible dependencies during RHEL 8 upgrade on Red Hat Satellite 6.11

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.11

Issue

• The leapp upgrade or leapp preupgrade fails to resolve ansible dependencies during RHEL-8.6 upgrade on Red Hat Satellite 6.11

Resolution

• As a workaround of This content is not included.Bug 2087144, run below command on Satellite machine before running leapp upgrade:

  # rpm -e ansible ansible-test --nodeps
  

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

Root Cause

• Red Hat Engineering team is already aware of this bug and is currently tracking the same in This content is not included.Bug 2087144

• RHEL8.5 use ansible-2.9 while RHEL8.6 use ansible-core 2.12 instead.

Diagnostic Steps

• Below error trace is observed while running leapp upgrade utility.

     2022-05-17 07:58:22.600270 [ERROR] Actor: dnf_transaction_check
     Message: DNF execution failed with non zero exit code.
     STDOUT:
     Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:14 ago on Tue May 17 07:56:56 2022.
     Package foreman-installer-katello-1:3.1.2.5-1.el7sat.noarch is already installed.
     Package rubygem-foreman_maintain-1:1.0.10-1.el7sat.noarch is already installed.
     Package satellite-installer-6.11.0.7-1.el7sat.noarch is already installed.
     Package katello-4.3.0-1.el7sat.noarch is already installed.
     Package foreman-installer-1:3.1.2.5-1.el7sat.noarch is already installed.
  
     STDERR:
     Warning: Package marked by Leapp to install not found in repositories metadata: rubygem-foreman_ansible_core rubygem-foreman-tasks-core rubygem-foreman_remote_execution_core log4j12
     Warning: Package marked by Leapp to upgrade not found in repositories metadata: gpg-pubkey leapp python2-leapp leapp-upgrade-el7toel8
     Transaction check: 
  
      Problem: problem with installed package ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch
       - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch
       - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch
       - package python38-galaxy-importer-0.4.1-2.el8pc.noarch requires /usr/bin/ansible-test, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.12.2-3.1.el8.x86_64 requires ansible-core = 2.12.2-3.1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.9.0-2.el8.noarch requires ansible = 2.9.0-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.9.1-1.el8.noarch requires ansible = 2.9.1-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.9.2-1.el8ae.noarch requires ansible = 2.9.2-1.el8ae, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.9.4-1.el8ae.noarch requires ansible = 2.9.4-1.el8ae, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-test-2.9.5-1.el8ae.noarch requires ansible = 2.9.5-1.el8ae, but none of the providers can be installed
       - package ansible-core-2.12.2-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch
       - cannot install both ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch and ansible-2.9.0-2.el8.noarch
       - cannot install both ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch and ansible-2.9.1-1.el8.noarch
       - cannot install both ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch and ansible-2.9.2-1.el8ae.noarch
       - cannot install both ansible-2.9.27-1.el8ae.noarch and ansible-2.9.4-1.el8ae.noarch
       - package python38-pulp-ansible-1:0.10.1-1.el8pc.noarch requires python38-galaxy-importer >= 0.3.1, but none of the providers can be installed
       - ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository
       - conflicting requests
       - ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  
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