YUM update conflicts: 'glibc' and 'glibc-common' (F11, x86_64)

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 08/22/2009 03:17 PM, Ryan Lynch wrote:
> Running 'yum update' from the command line, I am getting some file
> conflicts between different arch/versions of the 'glibc' and
> 'glibc-common' packages.  This machine runs F11-x86_64.
> 
> Here's the actual error output:
> 
> <code>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.10.1/NEWS from install of
> glibc-2.10.1-4.i686 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.10.1-2.x86_64
>   file /usr/bin/ldd from install of glibc-common-2.10.1-4.i586 conflicts
> with file from package glibc-common-2.10.1-2.x86_64
>   file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl from install of
> glibc-common-2.10.1-4.i586 conflicts with file from package
> glibc-common-2.10.1-2.x86_64
>   file /usr/share/doc/glibc-common-2.10.1/ChangeLog.bz2 from install of
> glibc-common-2.10.1-4.i586 conflicts with file from package
> glibc-common-2.10.1-2.x86_64
>   file /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_AT from install of
> glibc-common-2.10.1-4.i586 conflicts with file from package
> glibc-common-2.10.1-2.x86_64
> </code>
> 
> Is this a known issue, or did I screw something up?

Something is screwed up.  Possibly on your system.  glibc-common.i586 is
conflicting with glibc-common.i686.  I think you need one and not the
other.  Since you system is a base x86_64, I would suggest trying the
following:

# yum shell
> remove glibc-common.i586
> install glibc-common.i686
> run

and see if that helps....

> Ryan B. Lynch
> ryan.b.lynch at gmail.com <mailto:ryan.b.lynch at gmail.com>
> 


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