The classic circular dependency issue. I thought yum handled this better.
The fix is to install the common bit with the "--nodeps" option to rpm, THEN install the regular glibc bits:
rpm -Fvh --nodeps glibc-common*.rpm rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm
Works for me.
Yum -does- appear to handle this better. The problem seems to be that the original poster's up2date didn't pick up glibc-common as needing to be updated, and he didn't specify it explicitly. Compare with the following:
[bevan@wallace ~]> yum list updates
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Name Arch Version Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------glibc i686 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
glibc-common i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
glibc-devel i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
glibc-headers i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
nscd i386 2.3.2-101.4 updates-released
[bevan@wallace ~]> sudo yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[update: nscd 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
[update: glibc-devel 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
[update: glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
[update: glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686]
[update: glibc-headers 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Getting nscd-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
Getting glibc-devel-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
Getting glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
Getting glibc-headers-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
glibc-common 100 % done 1/10
glibc 100 % done 2/10
Stopping sshd:[ OK ]
Starting sshd:[ OK ]
glibc-headers 100 % done 3/10
nscd 100 % done 4/10
glibc-devel 100 % done 5/10
Completing update for nscd - 6/10
Completing update for glibc-devel - 7/10
Completing update for glibc-common - 8/10
Completing update for glibc - 9/10
Completing update for glibc-headers - 10/10
Updated: nscd 2.3.2-101.4.i386 glibc-devel 2.3.2-101.4.i386 glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386 glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686 glibc-headers 2.3.2-101.4.i386
Transaction(s) Complete
