[Yum] Re: Yum unable to install while yum-updatesd running

[Donald Murray, P.Eng.]

On Dec 5, 2007 11:37 AM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. <donaldm314 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back in the old days, when periodic yum updates where a cron-job,
> I was able to issue 'yum install ...' or 'yum update ...' commands
> with impunity.
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.1 and seeing the following:
> [root at dmurray ~]# yum install perl-Date-Manip
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
> [root at dmurray ~]# echo $( cat /var/run/yum.pid )
> 16744
> [root at dmurray ~]# service yum-updatesd status
> yum-updatesd (pid 16744) is running...
> [root at dmurray ~]# rpm -q yum yum-updatesd
> yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5
> yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5
> [root at dmurray ~]#
>
> If I merely _restart_ yum-updatesd, I can then immediately
> do a 'yum ...' command as desired.
>
> What's the idiomatic way to update or install via yum, while
> yum-updatesd is running?
>
> Thanks!
>

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Is there something
I should change in my yum-updatesd.conf?

dmurray at dmurray:/home/dmurray 0> grep -v "^#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
[main]
run_interval = 3600
updaterefresh = 600
emit_via = dbus
dbus_listener = yes
do_update = yes
do_download = yes
do_download_deps = yes


I'm considering punting yum-updatesd and using a cron job
instead.