Why does yum update fail on a newly upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 7 machine?

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Issue

  • The machine was upgraded from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to 7 and is now failing to update using yum, showing lots of dependency issues.
# rpm -qa | grep el6 | grep glibc
glibc-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64
glibc-static-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64
# uname -a
Linux test 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 19 11:24:13 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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