yum fails with "Transaction Check Error"

Issue

• yum fails with "Transaction Check Error":

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/share/man/man4/cciss.4.gz from install of man-pages-3.22-20.el6.noarch 
  conflicts with file from package kmod-cciss-4.6.28-21.rhel6u3.x86_64

  file /usr/share/man/man4/hpsa.4.gz from install of man-pages-3.22-20.el6.noarch 
  conflicts with file from package kmod-hpsa-3.1.0-4.rhel6u3.x86_64

Or

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/bin/hal-probe-vmmouse from install of vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-mouse-12.6.7.0-0.341836.el6.x86_64 
  conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.9.0-10.el6.x86_64

  file /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so from install of 
  vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-mouse-12.6.7.0-0.341836.el6.x86_64 
  conflicts with file from package xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.9.0-10.el6.x86_64