Whenever I try to do a yum update on my server, i get this error for xen-libs. I've ran the three commands it says I should try running and i still get the errors.

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-64.el5_2.1 for package: xen
---> Package xen-libs.i386 0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.2 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: liblzma.so.0 for package: xen-libs
--> Processing Dependency: libext4fs.so.2 for package: xen-libs
--> Running transaction check
---> Package e4fsprogs-libs.i386 0:1.41.12-2.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-64.el5_2.1 for package: xen
---> Package xz-libs.i386 0:4.999.9-0.3.beta.20091007git.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-64.el5_2.1 is needed by package xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-64.el5_2.1 is needed by package xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1.i386 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

here's the output from a rpm -qa | grep xen
xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1
kernel-xen-2.6.18-274.18.1.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5
xen-libs-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5

Anyone have any thoughts on how I can fix this? usually i just exclude xen-libs when i update but ideally i'd like to resolve the issue.

It appears like the repositories you have in your system does not have xen-libs package. You can try fixing this issue by manually upgrading xen and xen-libs package. You can get the packages from the links given below.

After updating xen and xen-libs, please try yum update, it should work

If it s CentOS server, you can add a .repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/ for the above mirror site.

Thanks for the reply. This server is actually RHEL though, but how do I grab it for that to manually update it?

Download both packages using wget and save it in a directory.

Then, perform

Afterwards, you can try

ok, thanks. i'll try it out next time i get some time on that server. will have to read how to use wget too.

Just use the following wget command to download the files.

Will the CentOS ones work even though the server is actually RHEL? I know they're essentially the same, but didnt know if you can do that or not.