yum update returns error "Multilib version problems found."

Hello, after i executed "yum update" on my WHM server, it started working and then stopped with following lines at the end:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-504.8.1.el6 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:

         1. You have an upgrade for libffi which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of libffi of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
            --exclude libffi.otherarch ... this should give you an error
            message showing the root cause of the problem.

         2. You have multiple architectures of libffi installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.

         3. You have duplicate versions of libffi installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.

       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).

       Protected multilib versions: libffi-3.0.5-3.2.el6.i686 != libffi-3.0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64

can i fix this anyhow? can this break WHM updating functions?

cPanelMichael

September 21, 2015 04:58

Hello :) This is discussed on the following thread:

postcd

September 24, 2015 12:03

Thanks, i checked that thread, but im not able to solve it. the "yum update" error is: Protected multilib versions: libffi-3.0.5-3.2.el6.i686 != libffi-3.0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64 My CentOS is 6.6, x86_64 . Does it mean i have CentOS 5 package installed and that is issue? # rpm -qa | grep libffi libffi-3.0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64 # yum list libffi Installed Packages libffi.x86_64 3.0.9-1.el5.rf @rpmforge Available Packages libffi.i686 3.0.5-3.2.el6 base # yum repolist enabled base CentOS-6 - Base 6513+62 draios Draios 11 *epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 11069+695 extras CentOS-6 - Extras 43 updates CentOS-6 - Updates 379+48 vz-base vz-base 3 vz-updates vz-updates how can i please install/reinstall it good so yum update works? i found nothing suspicious in /etc/yum.repos.d someone adviced: #rpm -e --nodeps libffi but not sure if its safe

September 24, 2015 12:40

I tried that command: #rpm -e --nodeps libffi then this one: #yum install libffi-devel and it worked to install el6 version # yum update than was not interupted and wanting me to upgrade 187 packages and install 13 here:

September 29, 2015 19:15

Hello :) You may want to consider removing the RPMForge YUM repo if you are not using it for a specific purpose. It's not utilized by default and it's possible that it's the source of this error message. Otherwise, you can proceed with updating the packages as advised in the output of the "yum update" command. Thank you.

yum update returns error "Multilib version problems found."

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