[rhelv6-list] multilib problems with python andiscsi-initiator-utils

Gary Gatling gsgatlin at ncsu.edu
Thu May 26 17:01:23 UTC 2011


Ok. That makes sense. Thanks a lot for the info on that change in 6.1. If 
I run into this in 6.2 later maybe I can try the same technique with the 
yum reinstall <whatever packages are freaking out>

Cheers,

Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems

On Thu, 26 May 2011, vincent at cojot.name wrote:

>
> 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
>
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