well... I found a solution myself here is the solution I found, if anyone else is also there in my situation. Download the centos rpms and install them as given below. =========================================== rpm -Uvh glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.i386.rpm glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm --replacefiles --oldpackage =========================================== -- Thanks, Sherin