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

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 11 15:43:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:36 -0700, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote:
> 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.

until rhel/centos 5.2 comes out that is probably not a bad idea.

-sv





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