Re: vCentre 4.0 U1 Update Manager cannot remediate

Hello All

I am running Vcentre 4.1 Update 2 on windows 2008 X62 SP2. I am tying to remediate an ESX host in my estate - ESX 4.1.0 381591 using Update manager. I would like to deploy the 29 patches including 'ESX 4.1 complete update 2' which is available within my repository for deployment. I have successfully deployed all the patches to an ESX 4.1.0 433742 host without any conflicts or issues. It is only to the ESX 4.1.0 381591 hosts I am having the conflicts.

Below is the errors I get:

Host patch ESX410-201110201-SG conflicts with the package pam_per_user
-0.4-505.vmw@i686 installed on the host and cannot be remediated.
Remove the patch from the baseline or include any suggested additional
patches in the baseline and retry remediation operation.
error
Remediate entity

Host patch ESX410-201112401-BG conflicts with the package pam_per_user
-0.4-505.vmw@i686 installed on the host and cannot be remediated.
Remove the patch from the baseline or include any suggested additional
patches in the baseline and retry remediation operation.
error
Remediate entity

Host patch ESX410-201201401-SG conflicts with the package pam_per_user
-0.4-505.vmw@i686 installed on the host and cannot be remediated.
Remove the patch from the baseline or include any suggested additional
patches in the baseline and retry remediation operation.
error
Remediate entity

Host patch ESX410-Update02 conflicts with the package pam_per_user-0.4-
505.vmw@i686 installed on the host and cannot be remediated. Remove
the patch from the baseline or include any suggested additional patches in
the baseline and retry remediation operation.
error
Remediate entity

Host patch ESX410-201107401-BG conflicts with the package pam_per_user
-0.4-505.vmw@i686 installed on the host and cannot be remediated.
Remove the patch from the baseline or include any suggested additional
patches in the baseline and retry remediation operation.
error
Remediate entity

It seems to be the same package currently on the ESX host causing the conflict - pam_per_user
-0.4-505.vmw@i686.

What is this and is there any way to remove this package so this ESX host can accept the same list of patches as the ESX 4.1.0 433742 host?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Warren