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VMWare Update Manager fails scanning hosts: "There is a cyclic dependency"

I've been trying to resolve this for a while now, but i'm out of ideas.

This is the story:

1) After the beginning of june i noticed that update manager was not working, giving some repository integrity error. I checked and i realized that i didn't installed a mandatory update, that was to be installed before the 1st of june. That's because there was some out of date security keys that needed to be updated.

(http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=103000...)

I installed it manually, and that error went away.

2) now i'm getting a brand new error:

In the tasks list the scan or remediate task says "VmWare Update manager had a failure".

And in the update manger log files i've found this:

[2011-08-09 11:04:52:548 'SetFirewallConfig' 13524 INFO]  [hostUpdateBase, 376] Checking firewall configuration for host: ensv16oi.eni.pri
[2011-08-09 11:04:52:548 'SetFirewallConfig' 13524 INFO]  [hostUpdateBase, 377] Ruleset name: updateManager
[2011-08-09 11:04:52:548 'SetFirewallConfig' 13524 INFO]  [hostUpdateBase, 388] Firewall ruleset already activated
[2011-08-09 11:05:13:621 'scanResultsAnalyzer' 13524 INFO]  [hostUpdateScanResultsAnalyzer, 299] There is a cycle: ESX350-201008402-BG->ESX350-201105401-SG->ESX350-201012401-SG->ESX350-201105403-BG->ESX350-201012401-SG
[2011-08-09 11:05:13:621 'SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask{9}' 13524 ERROR]  [vciTaskBase, 442] Task execution has failed: There is a cyclic dependency: ESX350-201008402-BG->ESX350-201105401-SG->ESX350-201012401-SG->ESX350-201105403-BG->ESX350-201012401-SG

[2011-08-09 11:05:14:012 'VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{6}' 13524 DEBUG]  [vciTaskBase, 465] A subTask finished: VciHostRemediateTask{7}
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:106 'VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{6}' 13524 INFO]  [vciRemediateTask, 109]  Completed
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:106 'VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{6}' 13524 DEBUG]  [vciTaskBase, 1052] SerializeToVimFault fault:
(integrity.fault.VcIntegrityFault) {
   dynamicType = <unset>,
   msg = ""
}
Converted fault:
(vim.fault.ExtendedFault) {
   dynamicType = <unset>,
   faultTypeId = "com.vmware.vcIntegrity.VcIntegrityFault",
   data = (vim.KeyValue) [
      (vim.KeyValue) {
         dynamicType = <unset>,
         key = "dynamicType",
         value = "",
      },
      (vim.KeyValue) {
         dynamicType = <unset>,
         key = "dynamicProperty",
         value = "",
      }
   ],
   msg = ""
}
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:106 'VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{6}' 13524 INFO]  [vciTaskBase, 1056] VciTask { id: RemediateTask{6}, type: com.vmware.vcIntegrity.RemediateTask }: Setting VC task state to: error
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:419 'VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{6}' 13524 DEBUG]  [vciTaskBase, 684] Task finished...
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'JobDispatcher' 11900 INFO]  [JobDispatcher, 1203]  Removing task RemediateTask{6} that imposed Alpine load:2, new load: 3
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'JobDispatcher' 9104 INFO]  [JobDispatcher, 1203]  Removing task VciHostRemediateTask{7} that imposed Alpine load:1, new load: 2
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'JobDispatcher' 12640 INFO]  [JobDispatcher, 1203]  Removing task ChainedTaskContainer{8} that imposed Alpine load:0, new load: 2
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'JobDispatcher' 9500 INFO]  [JobDispatcher, 1203]  Removing task SingleHostScanTask{9} that imposed ESX load:3 for esx host-3191, new load: 0 that imposed Alpine load:2, new load: 0
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'JobDispatcher' 13676 DEBUG]  [JobDispatcher, 250] The number of tasks: 0
[2011-08-09 11:05:14:434 'SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask{9}' 13524 DEBUG]  [vciTaskBase, 684] Task finished...

I want to stress out the following line:

[2011-08-09 11:05:13:621 'SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask{9}' 13524 ERROR]  [vciTaskBase, 442] Task execution has failed: There is a cyclic dependency: ESX350-201008402-BG->ESX350-201105401-SG->ESX350-201012401-SG->ESX350-201105403-BG->ESX350-201012401-SG

Everyone knows what should i do now?

Thank you.

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