Help with "sudo yum update"

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

2011/11/30 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas <aa.lucelio at gmail.com>:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've never seen an error like this.  Anybody helps?
> =================================================================
> [Lucelio at MAQ02 ~]$ uname -r
> 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64
> [Lucelio at MAQ02 ~]$ sudo yum update
> Plugins carregados: refresh-packagekit
> Configurando o processo de atualização
> Resolvendo dependências
> - --> Executando verificação da transação
> - ---> Package gtk2.i686 0:2.24.7-3.fc16 will be atualizado
> - ---> Package gtk2.i686 0:2.24.8-2.fc16 will be an update
> - ---> Package preupgrade.noarch 0:1.1.9-1.fc16 will be atualizado
> - ---> Package preupgrade.noarch 0:1.1.10-1.fc16 will be an update
> - --> Resolução de dependências finalizada
> Error: Protected multilib versions: gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.i686 !=
> gtk2-2.24.7-3.fc16.x86_64
> [Lucelio at MAQ02 ~]$
> =================================================================
> So I can't update the system.

Hmm, for some reason YUM finds an update for i686 gtk2 but not x86_64
gtk2.  AFAICT, gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16 is in the updates repo for both
arches.

Run "yum clean all" and try again.  If it still fails, provide the
output of "yum info gtk2".

-T.C.