Yum commands return the error message: RHN client conflicts with the RHN virtualization host

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Receiving the following error when running any yum command:
RHN Client conflicts with the RHN Virtualization host
  • When execute 'yum update', the following error message can be seen: "Processing Conflict: rhn-client-tools conflicts rhn-virtualization-host"
--> Processing Conflict: rhn-client-tools conflicts rhn-virtualization-host < 5.4.34-3
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
rhn-client-tools-0.4.20.1-9.el5.noarch from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
  --> rhn-client-tools conflicts with rhn-virtualization-host
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-371.9.1.el5 set to be erased
--> Processing Conflict: rhn-client-tools conflicts rhn-virtualization-host < 5.4.34-3
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
rhn-client-tools-0.4.20.1-9.el5.noarch from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
  --> rhn-client-tools conflicts with rhn-virtualization-host
Error: rhn-client-tools conflicts with rhn-virtualization-host
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10

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