On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:05:47AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic enlightened us:
> I've updated CentOS 4.0 to 4.1 on several machines (some desktops, some
> servers). However on my laptop, update is failing with following error
> just after headers are downloaded:
>
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2 for package: glibc
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.3.4-2 is needed by package glibc
>
> My CentOS.repo is a standard one, as distributed with CentOS. I don't
> have any additional repos defined on my laptop. I attempted to clear
> yum cache (rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*). Rerun yum update, and got the same
> error again.
>
> Looking at the /var/cache/yum/base/headers, I see that yum downloaded
> headers for gblic-common, glibc-devel, and glibc-headers, but not for
> glibc. Seems as if yum did not considered base glibc package to be due
> for update. Running rpm -q glibc, shows that currently installed
> version of glibc is 2.3.4-2 (and all the other currently installed glibc
> packages are at the same version level).
>
> I don't remember doing anything fancy on that laptop that could have
> triggered this problem. Basically, it was normal install (desktop+devel
> packages mostly), and after that it was regulary updated from cron.
>
> Of course, as a workaround I could download glibc and related packages
> and update it by hand, and than rerun yum update to get all other
> updates from 4.1. But, I though it would be more fun if anybody could
> give me hint or two why yum failed to update this particular system.
I had the same problem on a Pentium 166 machine. Is the laptop an i586
architecture? I am wondering if there is some exactarch weirdness going on
with yum. I needed to get the machine up and running, so I did as you said
and installed glibc and glibc-common by hand, then re-ran yum.
Matt
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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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