[newbie] I can't remove old glibc; please help

[R. Lahaye]

Hi,

The following update fails:

# rpm -Uhv glibc-2.1.3-18.3mdk.i586.rpm
memory alloc returned NULL.
#

(updating 2.1.3-16 to 2.1.3-18.3)

I then used the replace package and files options.
I now have both glibc version when I look at the output of "rpm -qa".


Removing the old package still fails:

# rpm -e glibc-2.1.3-16mdk
memory alloc returned NULL.
#


I want to remove the old package.
Is the database broken? Is there a manual way of doing/fixing this?

(I'm a total newbie to the RPM inns and outs!).

Thanks a lot.

Rob.