Problem with an update

Hey guys,

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I'm getting an error when I try to do a yum update. I'm still pretty new to this whole Linux thing, so I was hoping somebody could give me advice before I try to fix this myself by trial and error

Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.i686 (@base)
Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.132.el6
Removing: glibc-common-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64 (@base)
glibc-common = 2.12-1.132.el6
Updated By: glibc-common-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2.x86_64 (updates)
glibc-common = 2.12-1.132.el6_5.2
Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.132.el6_5.1.x86_64 (updates)
glibc-common = 2.12-1.132.el6_5.1
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
gamin-0.1.10-9.el6.i686 has missing requires of libglib-2.0.so.0
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.i686 has missing requires of libfreebl3.so
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.i686 has missing requires of libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3)

It would be awesome if somebody could help explain the error so I can learn how to fix something like this myself.

Also, when I do yum update --skip-broken I get this.

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 libxml2 which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of libxml2 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 libxml2.otherarch ... this should give you an error
message showing the root cause of the problem.

2. You have multiple architectures of libxml2 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 libxml2 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: libxml2-2.7.6-14.el6_5.1.x86_64 != libxml2-2.7.6-14.el6.i686
** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
gamin-0.1.10-9.el6.i686 has missing requires of libglib-2.0.so.0
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.i686 has missing requires of libfreebl3.so
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.i686 has missing requires of libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3)

 

Thanks, that makes so much sense. It's not the first time I've had trouble with the *.i686 stuff and I couldn't understand if I had done something incorrect.

I really appreciate the explaination.