What causes this error?
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. Eg.:
1. You have an upgrade for glibc which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of glibc of the
different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
--exclude glibc.otherarch ... this should give you an error
message showing the root cause of the problem.
2. You have multiple architectures of glibc installed, but
yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
can remove the one with the missing update and everything
will work.
3. You have duplicate versions of glibc installed already.
You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
much more problems).
Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.i686 != glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.2.x86_64 Error: Protected multilib versions: db4-4.7.25-18.el6_4.i686 != db4-4.7.25-17.el6.x86_64 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 10 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
32:bind-libs-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.6.x86_64 is a duplicate with 32:bind-libs-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5.x86_64
chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6_4.1.x86_64 is a duplicate with chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6.x86_64
db4-4.7.25-18.el6_4.x86_64 is a duplicate with db4-4.7.25-17.el6.x86_64
12:dhcp-common-4.1.1-34.P1.el6_4.1.x86_64 is a duplicate with 12:dhcp-common-4.1.1-34.P1.el6.centos.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-2.12-1.107.el6_4.2.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', '2.12', '1.107.el6')
glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6_4.2.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-common-2.12-1.107.el6_4.2.x86_64
krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.6.x86_64 is a duplicate with krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.4.x86_64
tzdata-2013g-1.el6.noarch is a duplicate with tzdata-2013c-2.el6.noarch
