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. ==================================================================================== 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 abrt-addon-coredump-helper x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8 @AppStream 46 k abrt-addon-kerneloops x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8 @AppStream 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 libblockdev-kbd x86_64 2.19-12.el8 @AppStream 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 python3-abrt-addon x86_64 2.10.9-11.el8 @AppStream 15 k python3-blivet noarch 1:3.1.0-21.el8_2 @AppStream 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 python3-ethtool x86_64 0.14-3.el8 @BaseOS 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]: