"rhn-satellite-activate" fails, mentions a specific channel in error

Issue

• rhn-satellite-activate fails to complete, generating an error similar to the following:

Certificate specifies 1 of rhel-devsuite-beta channel family entitlements.
There are 500 entitlements allocated to non-base org(s) (0 used).
You might need to deallocate some entitlements from non-base organization(s).
You need to free 499 entitlements to match the new certificate.

# rhn-satellite-activate --disconnected --rhn-cert=/tmp/satellite.cert
Certificate specifies 11 of rhel-server-6-ha non-flex entitlements.
    There are 18 non-flex entitlements allocated to non-base org(s) (16 used).
    You might need to deallocate some entitlements from non-base organization(s).
    You need to free 7 entitlements to match the new certificate.
Activation failed, will now exit with no changes.

ERROR: RHN Entitlement Certificate failed to validate:
Exception reported from satellite.example.com
Time: Wed Aug  7 23:08:37 2013
Exception type exceptions.SystemExit

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/rhn_satellite_activate.py", line 206, in activateSatellite_local
    satCerts.storeRhnCert(cert, check_generation=1, check_version=not(options.ignore_version_mismatch))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satCerts.py", line 496, in storeRhnCert
    set_slots_from_cert(sc)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satCerts.py", line 328, in set_slots_from_cert
    sys.exit(1)
SystemExit: 1