I finally solved my update problems by using rpm command. I found that I had 2 versions of e2fsprogs installed, one ending with EL4. Don't know where this came from, because there was never a EL4 on this machine. But when I removed it, yum update run fine.
thats the i386 package that seemed to be getting excluded, based on your paste earlier in the thread.
Sorry, I don't get your message. Do you mean I somehow manage to exclude the i386 package from updating and that caused my problems? But how did I exclude it? I did not specify an exclude on command line or config file either.
Please enlighten me further. (This thing has helped me already to get better knowledge of yum :-)
Andreas