Executing the satellite-installer fails with the error: 'Change from 'purged' to 'present' failed: Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install postgresql-evr' returned 1: Error: Unable to find a match: postgresql-evr.

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • Running the satellite-installer command fails with the following error:

    Error 1: Puppet Package resource 'postgresql-evr' failed. Logs:
/Package[postgresql-evr]
  Starting to evaluate the resource (202 of 1613)
  Evaluated in 5.30 seconds
Packagepostgresql-evr
  Ensuring => present
/Stage[main]/Katello::Application/Package[postgresql-evr]/ensure
  change from 'purged' to 'present' failed: Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install postgresql-evr' returned 1: Error: Unable to find a match: postgresql-evr

Resolution

  • Enable satellite-6.X-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms on the Satellite Server, as the postgresql-evr package comes from this repository

     # subscription-manager repos --enable satellite-6.X-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

    Replace X with the exact version of the satellite, i.e., for satellite 6.15, the repository should be satellite-6.15-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

  • Execute the satellite-installer command manually and ensure that it is getting completed successfully.

     # satellite-installer

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

  • Manually executing the yum/dnf update command on the Red Hat Satellite Server has removed the 'postgresql-server,' 'postgresql-contrib,' and 'postgresql-evr' packages.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Check the /var/log/foreman-installer/satellite.log file on the Red Hat Satellite Server for errors.

  • Check the dnf/yum history details on the Red Hat Satellite Server:

     # dnf history 
 Updating Subscription Management repositories.
 ID     | Command line                                                             | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 44 | update -y --allowerasing                                                 | 2025-03-21 14:18 | E, U           |   10  <

  • The following logs show that manually executing the yum update command on the Satellite server removed the packages:

       2025-03-21T14:18:24-0600 DDEBUG Command: yum update -y --allowerasing 
   2025-03-21T14:18:24-0600 DDEBUG Installroot: /

  2025-03-21T14:18:28-0600 DEBUG --> Starting dependency resolution
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package libpq.x86_64 13.11-1.el8 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package libpq.x86_64 13.20-1.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package postgresql.x86_64 12.18-1.module+el8.9.0+21289+7c796f9d will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package postgresql.x86_64 12.22-3.module+el8.10.0+22943+b3f02cd1 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package nftables.x86_64 1:1.0.4-4.el8_9 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package nftables.x86_64 1:1.0.4-7.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package python3-nftables.x86_64 1:1.0.4-4.el8_9 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package python3-nftables.x86_64 1:1.0.4-7.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package firewalld.noarch 0.9.11-4.el8 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package firewalld.noarch 0.9.11-10.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package firewalld-filesystem.noarch 0.9.11-4.el8 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package firewalld-filesystem.noarch 0.9.11-10.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package python3-firewall.noarch 0.9.11-4.el8 will be upgraded
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package python3-firewall.noarch 0.9.11-10.el8_10 will be an upgrade
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package postgresql-contrib.x86_64 12.18-1.module+el8.9.0+21289+7c796f9d will be erased     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<           
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package postgresql-evr.x86_64 0.0.2-1.el8sat will be erased                                <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG ---> Package postgresql-server.x86_64 12.18-1.module+el8.9.0+21289+7c796f9d will be erased      <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  2025-03-21T14:18:29-0600 DEBUG --> Finished dependency resolution

  • The following error was observed in the /var/log/foreman-installer/satellite.log file:

    2025-03-22 04:07:31 [ERROR ] [configure] Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install postgresql-evr' returned 1: Error: Unable to find a       match: postgresql-evr
2025-03-22 04:07:31 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Katello::Application/Package[postgresql-evr]/ensure: change from 'purged' to   'present' failed: Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install postgresql-evr' returned 1: Error: Unable to find a match: postgresql-evr
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