RHVH upgrade fails with "cannot install the best candidate for the job - nothing provides vdsm = 4.40.80.6-1.el8ev needed by vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.40.80.6-1.el8ev.noarch"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot upgrade RHVH Host via Admin Portal
  • Cannot upgrade RHVH Host manually using yum:
# yum update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:10 ago on Fri 17 Sep 2021 11:13:04 PM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.40.70.6-1.el8ev.noarch
  - nothing provides vdsm = 4.40.80.6-1.el8ev needed by vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.40.80.6-1.el8ev.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
  • Cannot install hook package:
# yum install vdsm-hook-ethtool-options
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - nothing provides vdsm = 4.40.80.6-1.el8ev needed by vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.40.80.6-1.el8ev.noarch

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.4
    • Red Hat Virtualization Host 4.4

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