Error updating software on OL6.3 due to package conflict

Question

Hi, noob here.
I recently installed OL6.3 (in a VirtualBox VM). The install went well.
However, when I try to update the OS via Software Update, I get an error as follows which prevents any of the 748 updates being applied.
Test Transaction Errors: file /lib/firmware/isci/isci_firmware.bin from install of kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.noarch
Any ideas?
thanks...

Answer 1

Here's what I get from yum update with just the one repo in yum.repos.d:
Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Protected multilib versions: 1:cups-libs-1.4.2-48.el6_3.1.i686 != 1:cups-libs-1.4.7-1.x86_64
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 12 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
audit-libs-devel-2.1-5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of kernel-headers >= ('0', '2.6.29', None)
1:cups-libs-1.4.7-1.x86_64 is a duplicate with 1:cups-libs-1.4.2-39.el6.i686
glibc-headers-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of kernel-headers
glibc-headers-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of kernel-headers >= ('0', '2.2.1', None)
libcap-ng-devel-0.6.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64 has missing requires of kernel-headers >= ('0', '2.6.11', None)
libdrm-devel-2.4.23-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of kernel-headers >= ('0', '2.6.27', '0.144.rc0.git2.fc10')
libgcrypt-devel-1.4.5-5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of libgcrypt = ('0', '1.4.5', '5.el6')
msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch has missing requires of /usr/sbin/chkfontpath
xdialog-2.3.1-3.el5.x86_64 has missing requires of libgdk-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
xdialog-2.3.1-3.el5.x86_64 has missing requires of libglib-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
xdialog-2.3.1-3.el5.x86_64 has missing requires of libgmodule-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
xdialog-2.3.1-3.el5.x86_64 has missing requires of libgtk-1.2.so.0()(64bit)