On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:03:24 -0500
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> I downloaded a Centos 8 image file :
> 
> CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso
> 
> then I installed it as a kvm guest on a Centos 7 host machine.
> 
> I installed a lot of the software; gui and server to give it a test drive.
> 
> Nothing unusual about what I did  that I can identify.
And the message came up when you.... what?  What action do you take immediately
prior to
this message appearing?
The message appears on the desktop?  Login screen?  When you open a terminal
window?
I have cleaned up a lot of stuff on my C8 machines that I don't need, but on
my main
computer (this one) "rpm -qa | grep subscription" gives me no output,
so you might want to
"dnf remove *subscription* and see what happens.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Frank,
It appears every time I do a dnf update.  I was trying to install kvm to see if
I could put
a guest inside of guest.  I wanted to test kvm on Centos 8 before I put it into
production.
I tried to remove subscription as above but decided to answer the question to
the negative.
What appears is below.
Greg
[root at Post ~]# dnf remove *subscription*
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use
subscription-
manager to register.
Modular dependency problems:
 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-
SQLite:1.58:8010020191114033549:073fa5fe-0.x86_64
 Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-
DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64
Dependencies resolved.
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Package                                  Arch   Version           Repository 
Size
===================================================================================Removing:
 dnf-plugin-subscription-manager          x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @BaseOS    
86 k
 python3-subscription-manager-rhsm        x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @BaseOS   
389 k
 subscription-manager                     x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @BaseOS   
4.2 M
 subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @AppStream 
45 k
 subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates   x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @BaseOS     
0
Removing dependent packages:
 abrt-cli                                 x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream  
0
 abrt-desktop                             x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream  
0
 initial-setup-gui                        x86_64 0.3.62.1-1.el8    @AppStream 
26 k
 virt-who                                 noarch 0.27.6-1.el8      @AppStream
783 k
Removing unused dependencies:
 abrt                                     x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream
2.7 M
 abrt-addon-ccpp                          x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream
355 k
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46 k
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96 k
 abrt-addon-pstoreoops                    x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
18 k
 abrt-addon-vmcore                        x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
45 k
 abrt-addon-xorg                          x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
67 k
 abrt-dbus                                x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream
234 k
 abrt-gui                                 x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream
239 k
 abrt-gui-libs                            x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
32 k
 abrt-libs                                x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream
101 k
 abrt-tui                                 x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
44 k
 anaconda-core                            x86_64 29.19.2.17-1.el8  @AppStream 
11 M
 anaconda-gui                             x86_64 29.19.2.17-1.el8  @AppStream
1.5 M
 anaconda-tui                             x86_64 29.19.2.17-1.el8  @AppStream
375 k
 anaconda-user-help                       noarch 1:8.2.3-1.el8     @AppStream
147 k
 anaconda-widgets                         x86_64 29.19.2.17-1.el8  @AppStream 
95 k
 blivet-data                              noarch 1:3.1.0-21.el8_2  @AppStream
369 k
 daxctl-libs                              x86_64 67-2.el8          @BaseOS    
73 k
 glade-libs                               x86_64 3.22.1-1.el8      @AppStream
2.1 M
 gnome-abrt                               x86_64 1.2.6-5.el8       @AppStream
855 k
 initial-setup                            x86_64 0.3.62.1-1.el8    @AppStream
224 k
 keybinder3                               x86_64 0.3.2-4.el8       @AppStream 
24 k
 langtable                                noarch 0.0.38-5.el8      @AppStream
121 k
 langtable-data                           noarch 0.0.38-5.el8      @AppStream
709 k
 libblockdev-dm                           x86_64 2.19-12.el8       @AppStream 
20 k
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36 k
 libblockdev-mpath                        x86_64 2.19-12.el8       @AppStream 
20 k
 libblockdev-nvdimm                       x86_64 2.19-12.el8       @AppStream 
24 k
 libreport-anaconda                       x86_64 2.9.5-10.el8      @AppStream 
17 k
 libreport-plugin-rhtsupport              x86_64 2.9.5-10.el8      @AppStream
104 k
 libreport-plugin-ureport                 x86_64 2.9.5-10.el8      @AppStream 
63 k
 libreport-rhel                           x86_64 2.9.5-10.el8      @AppStream 
39 k
 libtimezonemap                           x86_64 0.4.5.1-3.el8     @AppStream
6.7 M
 metacity                                 x86_64 3.28.0-1.el8      @AppStream
5.4 M
 ndctl                                    x86_64 67-2.el8          @BaseOS   
305 k
 ndctl-libs                               x86_64 67-2.el8          @BaseOS   
184 k
 platform-python-coverage                 x86_64 4.5.1-7.el8       @AppStream
943 k
 python3-abrt                             x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8     @AppStream 
62 k
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15 k
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3.1 M
 python3-blockdev                         x86_64 2.19-12.el8       @AppStream 
80 k
 python3-bytesize                         x86_64 1.4-3.el8         @AppStream 
21 k
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92 k
 python3-humanize                         noarch 0.5.1-13.el8      @AppStream 
42 k
 python3-iniparse                         noarch 0.4-31.el8        @anaconda 
106 k
 python3-inotify                          noarch 0.9.6-13.el8      @BaseOS   
243 k
 python3-kickstart                        noarch 3.16.10-1.el8     @AppStream
1.9 M
 python3-langtable                        noarch 0.0.38-5.el8      @AppStream
126 k
 python3-meh                              noarch 0.47.2-1.el8      @AppStream
283 k
 python3-meh-gui                          noarch 0.47.2-1.el8      @AppStream 
24 k
 python3-ntplib                           noarch 0.3.3-10.el8      @AppStream 
28 k
 python3-ordered-set                      noarch 2.0.2-4.el8       @AppStream 
15 k
 python3-pid                              noarch 2.1.1-7.el8       @AppStream 
33 k
 python3-productmd                        noarch 1.11-3.el8        @AppStream
241 k
 python3-pwquality                        x86_64 1.4.0-9.el8       @BaseOS    
21 k
 python3-pyparted                         x86_64 1:3.11.0-13.el8   @AppStream
368 k
 python3-requests-file                    noarch 1.4.3-5.el8       @AppStream
9.4 k
 python3-requests-ftp                     noarch 0.3.1-11.el8      @AppStream 
37 k
 python3-simpleline                       noarch 1.1-2.el8         @AppStream
430 k
 python3-suds                             noarch 0.7-0.8.94664ddd46a6.el8
                                                                   @AppStream
1.0 M
 rarian                                   x86_64 0.8.1-19.el8      @AppStream
363 k
 rarian-compat                            x86_64 0.8.1-19.el8      @AppStream
330 k
 rhsm-gtk                                 x86_64 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @AppStream
1.1 M
 rhsm-icons                               noarch 1.26.17-1.el8_2   @BaseOS   
6.3 k
 tigervnc-server-minimal                  x86_64 1.9.0-15.el8_1    @AppStream
4.0 M
 usermode                                 x86_64 1.113-1.el8       @BaseOS   
837 k
 usermode-gtk                             x86_64 1.113-1.el8       @AppStream
255 k
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================Remove
77 Packages
Freed space: 55 M
Is this ok [y/N]: