[rhelv6-list] multilib problems with python and iscsi-initiator-utils

[vincent at cojot.name]

Hi Gary,

I just ran into this upon updating to RHEL6.1 on two x86_64 systems too...
The reason behind this is that el6.0 provided both python.x86_64 and 
python.i686 while the el6.1 update only provided python.x86_64 (so does 
the DVD media too, btw). I opened SR 00478213 with RH about that issue.
In the end, I solved the issue by doing this:

# rpm -e boost-python.i686 iscsi-initiator-utils.i686 \
gstreamer-python.i686 rhythmbox.i686 glade3-libgladeui.i686 \
PyQt4.i686 boost-devel.i686 python.i686 python-devel.i686 \
tkinter.i686 python-libs.i686

The RH engineer also suggested that this would have solved my problem:

# yum reinstall python python-devel libtdb tdb-tools

PS: a few other rpms show some kind of issue too (tdb-tools, 
libcmpiCppImpl0-devel vs. tog-pegasus-devel, etc..)

I hope this helps,

Regards,

Vincent

On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary Gatling wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> Recently I could not get updates on both my RHEL 6 desktops. The error 
> message was this:
>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Protected multilib versions: python-libs-2.6.6-20.el6.x86_64 != 
> python-libs-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.i686
> Error: Protected multilib versions: python-2.6.6-20.el6.x86_64 != 
> python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.i686
> Error: Protected multilib versions: 
> iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-21.el6.x86_64 != 
> iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-10.el6.i686
> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
> I built a iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-21.el6.i686.rpm and a
> python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm and python-libs-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm rpms from 
> sources and added them to a local repo I use and that got around the problem. 
> So I guess 32 bit versions of these rpms were not built for the latest 
> updates..
>
> Should I put this into bugzilla for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6? Its not a bug 
> per se in RHEL. Its just that they forgot to add in these 32 bit packages to 
> the repo so on systems where both 32 and 64 bit packages are installed yum 
> breaks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems