"can not delete the license as it is associated with one or more environments" error when removing license from lifecycle manager locker

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• Attempts to remove a license in Lifecycle manager locker component fail with:

"can not delete the license as it is associated with one or more environments"

• The environment id referenced in the error message no longer exists and when you attempt to navigate to it you receive the error:
  
  "Environment with id <Uid> was not found. Go back to all environments."

Environment

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

The issue can occur if there are stale entries in the 'vm_locker_reference' table which associates the license to a product that no longer exists

Resolution

If you experience this issue please contact support referencing this article 404917. For more information, see Creating and managing Broadcom support cases.