Fedora19: YUM glibc is a duplicate of glibc

Question

I'm using Fedora 19, when I'm trying to perform a yum update, I get the following error.

yum update:

Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction, or "yum history redo last", first to finish them. If that doesn't work you'll have to try removing/installing packages by hand (maybe package-cleanup can help).
--> Running transaction check
---> Package autocorr-en.noarch 1:4.1.0.4-6.fc19 will be updated
...
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:3.10.3-300.fc19 will be erased
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.10.3-300.fc19 will be erased
---> Package kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 0:3.10.3-300.fc19 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: glibc-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64 (installed)
           Requires: glibc-common = 2.17-11.fc19
           Removing: glibc-common-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64 (installed)
               glibc-common = 2.17-11.fc19
           Updated By: glibc-common-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64 (updates)
               glibc-common = 2.17-14.fc19
           Available: glibc-common-2.17-4.fc19.x86_64 (fedora)
               glibc-common = 2.17-4.fc19
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
glibc-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64
glibc-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc-common = ('0', '2.17', '14.fc19')

What I don't get, is that it says it's missing glibc-common-2.17-14 but if I do yum info glibc-common-2.17 I get

Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name        : glibc-common
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.17
Release     : 11.fc19
Size        : 114 M
Repo        : installed
Summary     : Common binaries and locale data for glibc
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
License     : LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Description : The glibc-common package includes common binaries for the GNU libc
            : libraries, as well as national language (locale) support.


Available Packages
Name        : glibc-common
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.17
Release     : 14.fc19
Size        : 11 M
Repo        : updates/19/x86_64
Summary     : Common binaries and locale data for glibc
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
License     : LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Description : The glibc-common package includes common binaries for the GNU libc
            : libraries, as well as national language (locale) support.

Which says that it is, indeed available. Does somebody know how to get out of this? I allready tried to perform yum clean all and yum-complete-transaction but without any change.

thanks Martin

Answer 1

You missed a very important warning message:

There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction, or "yum history redo last", first to finish them. If that doesn't work you'll have to try removing/installing packages by hand (maybe package-cleanup can help).

It looks like a previous package update was interrupted. You should use yum-complete-transaction to finish it, before attempting to do anything else.

If that fails, you can try repairing things manually by removing the database entry for the partially updated package, then updating again.

rpm -e --nodeps --justdb glibc-2.17-14.fc19.x86_64
yum update