[rhelv6-list] multilib problems with pythonandiscsi-initiator-utils

[Gary Gatling]

Hmnn. Sadly did not work. :( I tried:

removing my i686 rpms from the repo.

yum clean all

yum reinstall python-libs python iscsi-initiator-utils

on the other box and this is what it installed:

Installed:
   iscsi-initiator-utils.i686 0:6.2.0.872-10.el6
   iscsi-initiator-utils.x86_64 0:6.2.0.872-10.el6
   python.i686 0:2.6.5-3.el6_0.2
   python.x86_64 0:2.6.5-3.el6_0.2
   python-libs.i686 0:2.6.5-3.el6_0.2
   python-libs.x86_64 0:2.6.5-3.el6_0.2

But then I get the same error message.

yum update

[SNIP]

--> 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 using --skip-broken to work around the problem
  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root at fixme gsgatlin]#

Is the proper fix to use rpm commands? I thought most people are saying to 
use yum exclusively with package updates since there is a log of all the 
transactions...

Thanks for any ideas...

I'm wondering if maybe this is a bug that needs to go into bugzilla?

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