m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > ken wrote: > <snip> >> So, shifting into work-around mode... I used wget to download >> glibc-common (the troublesome file) to another machine. No problem. >> Then I scp'd it to the problem machine-- again no problem-- and >> successfully installed it there using rpm. > > A strong recommendation: rpm -e, then yum localinstall. That way, yum's > d/b will be correct. yum doesn't have a db of installed packages, it relies on rpm for that. (fortunately!!)