Fedora 14 -> 15 upgrade: libnih problems

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 17:04 +0100, Christoph A. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did an upgrade from F14 to F15 using yum:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_14_-.3E_Fedora_15
> 
> I run it with --skip-broken due to the problems with libnih,
> and completed the upgrade process (except libnih).
> Now I'd like to fix the libnih problem before proceeding to upgrade
> from F15 to F16.
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> yum update
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libnih.x86_64 0:1.0.2-2.fc14 will be updated
> ---> Package libnih.x86_64 0:1.0.2-4.fc15 will be an update
> --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) for
> package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64 (fedora)
>            Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)
>            Available: glibc-2.13.90-9.x86_64 (fedora)
>                libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)
>            Available: glibc-2.14-5.x86_64 (updates)
>                libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)
>            Installed: glibc-2.14.1-4.i686 (@updates-testing)
>                Not found
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> 
> rpm -qa libnih
> libnih-1.0.2-2.fc14.x86_64
> 
> rpm -qa glibc
> glibc-2.14.1-4.x86_64
> glibc-2.14.1-4.i686
> 
> How can I fix this problem with libnih?
----
how about removing it (I don't know what required it to be installed
though)...

yum remove libnih

and it will undoubtedly list something that required it to be installed
and remove that too - then afterwards, you can re-install whatever it
was that required it.

Craig



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