[CentOS] yum problem with glibc

Tue May 22 10:05:47 UTC 2012
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

Is anyone getting a yum update problem with glibc and glibc-common?
I'm getting the error message
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Error: Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 != 
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686
** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 is a duplicate with bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-
common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', 
'2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12')
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I've tried "rpm --rebuilddb" but that did not seem to help.

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

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Timothy Murphy  
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