Bug 826480

I was able to work around the cups dependency by simply removing the i686 version of gtk2 (which in turn was only required by nspluginwrapper). I could then reinstall it if I so desired.

yum remove gtk2.i686
yum install gtk2.i686

As for the hundreds of other problems, I got around them by a combination of

yum distro-upgrade
yum list installed | grep fc16 | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs yum upgrade -y

(In reply to comment #1)
> I was able to work around the cups dependency by simply removing the i686
> version of gtk2 (which in turn was only required by nspluginwrapper). I
> could then reinstall it if I so desired.
> 
> yum remove gtk2.i686
> yum install gtk2.i686
> 
> As for the hundreds of other problems, I got around them by a combination of
> 
> yum distro-upgrade
> yum list installed | grep fc16 | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs yum upgrade -y

This worked for me and also took care of the "kernel panic" on shutdown issue

For me there was no package as gtk2.i686 installed and the command

yum list installed | grep fc16 | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs yum upgrade -y

also failed stating that could not remove following packages..

krb5-libs.i686                       1.9.3-1.fc16             @updates/16       
libdrm.i686                          2.4.33-1.fc16            @updates/16       
libuuid.i686                         2.20.1-2.3.fc16          @updates/16       
libxcb.i686                          1.7-3.fc16               @fedora/16        
llvm-libs.i686                       2.9-10.fc16              @updates/16       
mesa-dri-drivers.i686                7.11.2-3.fc16            @updates/16       
mesa-libGL.i686                      7.11.2-3.fc16            @updates/16       
openssl.i686                         1.0.0i-1.fc16            @updates/16


I removed them manually using yum remove for each of them and rerun 

yum list installed | grep fc16 | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs yum upgrade -y

after that yum update worked for me.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I was able to work around the cups dependency by simply removing the i686
> version of gtk2 (which in turn was only required by nspluginwrapper). I
> could then reinstall it if I so desired.
> 
> yum remove gtk2.i686
> yum install gtk2.i686

This is the error what I got when I tried to use the 2nd command

Error: Protected multilib versions: gtk2-2.24.11-1.fc17.i686 != gtk2-2.24.10-1.fc17.x86_64

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