Glibc library updation failing

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Hello
Please help on this error.
RHSA-2015-0090 for this vulnerability issue need to upgrade glibc version from glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64 to glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.
But while upgrade it throws dependency error.

error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.5-123.el5_11.1 is needed by glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.

i try to upgrade glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm but it is also throws same dependency error

error: Failed dependencies:
       glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.i686
       glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64

i try to install and upgrade for previous installed versions of glibc but same dependency error .

   rpm -Uvh  glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64.rpm

    Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    package glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64 is already installed.

    rpm -ev glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5
   error: Failed dependencies:
    glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.i686
    glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64

Please help me how to upgrade glibc.

MP
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PS Guru 6494 points
16 April 2015 11:43 PM

Magesh,

It is preferable to use yum when carrying out package upgrades as it can automatically determine and update dependencies (as long as repositories are configured correctly).

Judging by the above commands you are attempting to use rpm to update the packages independently, is this correct?

If you are using rpm, upgrade the primary package and its dependencies at the same time, in the same command. eg.

rpm -Uvh glibc-<version>.rpm glibc-common<version>.rpm

If this doesn't work for you, please post the exact commands you are running when attempting the upgrade.

MR Newbie 5 points
20 April 2018 6:25 PM

this command worked for me, thanks a lot for your recommendation

MP Newbie 15 points
17 April 2015 6:00 AM

Hi
Thank you For Reply,

tried these commands

rpm -Uvh glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm

warning: glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.i686

rpm -Uvh glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64.rpm

warning: glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
warning: package glibc-common = 2.5-123.el5_11.1 was already added, skipping glibc-common < 2.5-107.el5_9.5
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.i686

rpm -Uvh glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-107.el5_9.5.x86_64.rpm

warning: glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
warning: package glibc-common = 2.5-123.el5_11.1 was already added, skipping glibc-common < 2.5-107.el5_9.5
warning: package glibc-common = 2.5-123.el5_11.1 was already added, skipping glibc-common < 2.5-107.el5_9.5
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.5-107.el5_9.5 is needed by (installed) glibc-2.5-107.el5_9.5.i686
but same error throws.

and also tried yum

yum update glibc

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
Error: No Package Matching glibc

yum update glibc-2.5-107.e15_9.5

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
Error: No Package Matching glibc-2.5-107.e15_9.5

but i need to update with rpm packages only.

Please help me on this issue.

PS Guru 6494 points
18 April 2015 10:19 AM

Your first error is due to architecture (package install is i686, you're installing x86_64), which architecture is the installed OS?

uname -p
uname -a

What does the following provide?

yum repolist

glibc should definitely be in your primary repo. Have you configured the OS for updates?

fi Newbie 5 points
16 February 2016 4:03 PM

I have exactly the same issue when I try to update my glibc to 2.12-1.166* asking for a bunch of dependencies and even I use yum update and yum install get the same error and when I do yum repolist : it shows rhel-x86_64-server-6 RedHat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86 12,972 repolist: 12972

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