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

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 08/22/2009 12:24:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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....

Hmmmm ... perhaps install glibc-common.x86_64? i686 is still 32 bit.