rpm reports 2 glibc, what can I do?

[Paul Bender]

Neal Becker wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Oh, I AM on x86_64.  I guess this is not why yum won't upgrade.
>>>
>>
>>yum shouldn't have any problem on that - I've tested it quite a bit on
>>x86_64.
>>
>>give me the error output again.
>>
>>
>>
>>>I'm really stuck trying to debug this.  I think I need to find something
>>>that can dump the format used by yum headers to see why it's confused.
>>>In /var/cache/yum I have
>>>glibc-0-2.3.3-20.x86_64.hdr
>>>
>>>and all other glibc-stuff all with same versions, all x86_64 versions
>>>present.  I tried rm /var/cache/yum and redownloading everything.  I
>>>tried
>>>different mirrors.  This problem has persisted - it's not due to mirror
>>>sync.
>>
>>it could be a problem in the rawhide tree right now.
>>
>>-sv
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Would you like to see more debug than this?:
> 
> Resolving dependencies
> .....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Package dbh-devel needs dbh = 1.0.18-1, this is not available.
> Package samba needs samba-common = 0:3.0.2a, this is not available.
> Package xorg-x11-libs needs xorg-x11-libs-data = 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.9,
> this                   is not available.
> Package glibc needs glibc-common = 2.3.3-18, this is not available.

Sometimes, when trying to update everything fails, I find that updating 
a few packages at a time will work and help isolate the problem. Have 
you tried updating just one of the failed packages? For example, have 
you tried

yum update samba samba-common

or

yum update glibc glibc-common