Hi,

On 10/1/15, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm and the rest of the family there
> that match the offending debuginfo package are in the 6x fastbugs.  You
> have the base and security for 6x enabled, but not fastbugs. What
> version of 6 are you on?

Currently 6.7; it's been upgraded through several versions, starting
around 6.3, I think.  If the configuration looks unusual, that's
probably the reason.

> Maybe the debuginfo ended up in one of the
> point release fastbugs by accident...  Can you check which repo the
> debuginfo package came from?

It looks like all of the various versions of glibc-debuginfo are
included in "sl-debuginfo":

$ yum --showduplicates list glibc-debuginfo
...
Installed Packages
glibc-debuginfo.x86_64                 2.12-1.166.el6_7.3
   @sl-debuginfo
Available Packages
...
glibc-debuginfo.i686                   2.12-1.149.el6_6.9
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.x86_64                 2.12-1.149.el6_6.9
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.i686                   2.12-1.166.el6
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.x86_64                 2.12-1.166.el6
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.i686                   2.12-1.166.el6_7.1
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.x86_64                 2.12-1.166.el6_7.1
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.i686                   2.12-1.166.el6_7.3
   sl-debuginfo
glibc-debuginfo.x86_64                 2.12-1.166.el6_7.3
   sl-debuginfo

But the corresponding glibc packages are in different repos:

$ yum --showduplicates --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs list glibc
...
Installed Packages
glibc.i686                         2.12-1.166.el6
     @sl6x/6.6
glibc.x86_64                       2.12-1.166.el6
     @sl6x/6.6
Available Packages
glibc.i686                         2.12-1.166.el6
     sl
glibc.i686                         2.12-1.166.el6
     sl6x
glibc.x86_64                       2.12-1.166.el6
     sl
glibc.x86_64                       2.12-1.166.el6
     sl6x
glibc.i686                         2.12-1.166.el6_7.1
     sl-fastbugs
glibc.x86_64                       2.12-1.166.el6_7.1
     sl-fastbugs
glibc.i686                         2.12-1.166.el6_7.3
     sl-fastbugs
glibc.x86_64                       2.12-1.166.el6_7.3
     sl-fastbugs

> Try enabling the 6x fastbugs repo and see if it cleans up.

Yeah, that seems to work and is probably fine for a development
system.  Though I would say it's still important to have working
debuginfo for the "point release" versions.

FWIW, removing glibc-debuginfo and glibc-debuginfo-common, *then*
running "yum install glibc-debuginfo-2.12-1.166.el6" also seems to
work.  But in that case, yum will want to update those packages
automatically.

Benjamin