Johnny Hughes wrote:
Johnny Hughes suggested the command, so on that basis alone I would give it a high probability of success.
If you have ALL the latest glibc/nscd files to replace all the installed RPMS in the same place, and if you upgrade them all at the same time (including any i686 ones that you have installed).. then it SHOULD work properly and not break. I would say that the probability of success is close to 100% ... IF you have the proper files in the directory when you do the force install.
Thanks again for your useful advice. I'm going over to Italy in a couple of weeks now, so I'll leave it till then and do the "rpm --force" when I'm sitting at the server.
Whenever you run extremely important commands (like "yum update" or "rpm -Uvh --force") you need to be running these from inside a "screen" session. This will prevent a connectivity issue and subsequent disconnect from killing all running processes in your current shell.
Yes, thanks, I'd forgotten that possibility.