[WBEL-users] x64 yum update failing

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Hi,

I've got an WBEL4 x64 system that I installed a while back but sat awaiting 
deployment.  I finally decided to start using it today, so first thing I did 
was a yum update.  Unfortunately, yum is crashing on a dependency failure.

[root at phoenix /]# yum update glibc
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
Extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
updates-re: ################################################## 1293/1293
base      : ################################################## 2387/2387
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc.x86_64 0:2.3.4-2.13 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2.13 for package: glibc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.3.4-2.13 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2 for package: glibc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 109, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "__init__.py", line 224, in buildTransaction
  File "depsolve.py", line 211, in resolveDeps
  File "depsolve.py", line 338, in _processReq
  File "depsolve.py", line 412, in _requiringFromInstalled
  File "packageSack.py", line 257, in returnNewestByNameArch
repomd.mdErrors.PackageSackError: No Package Matching glibc.i686



There is obviously a copy of glibc on the machine - glibc-2.3.4-2 to be 
exact.  What I believe is happening is that there might be 2 copies of it - 
one being the i386 copy and on is the x64 copy.   Although when I check 
using rpm -qi glibc, it doesn't specify which is i386 and which is _x64.  I 
am more than happy to remove the i386 copy, as I believe it is it that is 
causing me these headaches, but not sure how.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric