[WBEL-users] x64 yum update failing

[Eric B.]

Okay, I'm updating my own question.

I finally figured out that adding rpm -qi --queryformat %{ARCH} will give 
the architecture for the particular package.
Indeed, rpm -qi --queryformat %{ARCH} tells me that one pkg is i686 and the 
other pkg is x86_64, as suspected.

So now the question becomes how can I safely remove the i686 pkg without 
touching the x86_64 pkg?

Thanks,

Eric


"news.gmane.org" <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:dvqgjv$o80$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> 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