When I try running yum update
on a CentOS 6.3 box, I am getting errors, and says to run yum check
. The output of yum check
is:
➜ ~ yum check
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.4.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6_4.4.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-devel-2.12-1.107.el6_4.4.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc-headers = ('0', '2.12', '1.107.el6_4.5')
iputils-20071127-17.el6_4.2.x86_64 is a duplicate with iputils-20071127-17.el6_4.x86_64
nspr-4.9.5-2.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with nspr-4.9.2-1.el6.x86_64
nss-3.14.3-4.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with nss-3.14.0.0-12.el6.x86_64
nss-softokn-3.14.3-3.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with nss-softokn-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64
nss-util-3.14.3-3.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with nss-util-3.14.0.0-2.el6.x86_64
tzdata-2013g-1.el6.noarch is a duplicate with tzdata-2013c-2.el6.noarch
2:xinetd-2.3.14-39.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with 2:xinetd-2.3.14-38.el6.x86_64
Error: check all
Any idea how to fix these packages? I tried yum reinstall xinetd tzdata nss-util nss-softokn nss nspr iputils glibc glibc-common glibc-devel
but got:
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is something else and multilib version checking is just pointing out that there is a problem.
For me it looks like you rebooted your computer (or it crashed) while you where in the process of upgrading packages. So new packages where installed, but old packages where not removed.
First look if you have any uncomplete transactions with: yum-complete-transaction
If this doesn't help then take a look at the package-cleanup tool which is part of the yum-utils package.
package-cleanup --dupes lists duplicate packages
package-cleanup --cleandupes removes duplicate packages
But be carefull with the command and create a backup before removing duplicates.