Yum fipscheck problems with 64-bit CentOS

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Hi everyone -

We’ve seen this problem often enough that I decided to write about it so the Googles can find it!

The symptom is yum output like this:

Error: fipscheck-lib conflicts with fipscheck

The problem seems to be that for some reason or other, both the 32-bit and the 64-bit libraries are installed for fipscheck. We haven’t figured out how this happens in the first place, but it’s come up a number of times now.

The solution is

yum erase fipscheck.i386

BUT MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO WEIRD DEPENDENCIES!

then try

yum update

again. That should do it!

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Thanks for posting this. This is what I get for a dependency:

Removing for dependencies:
nss_ldap i386 253-17.el5 installed 3.3 M

Would it be fine to go ahead with erasing fipscheck.i386 and this nss_ldap dependency? (I’m running interworx on 64-bit CentOS 5)

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Hi John,

Yes, that should be fine.

Paul

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Thanks, that seems to have worked fine. :slight_smile: