[Yum] running yum and yum-updatesd
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 25 18:14:01 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:37 -0400, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> This is on a CentOS 5.0 machine. I tried to run yum to search for php5-curl
> and the following happens.
>
> # yum search curl
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
>
> # ps aux --width=200 | grep yum
> root 3773 0.0 78.0 2949520 2628188 ? S Feb12
> 10:26 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
>
> # cat /var/run/yum.pid
> 3773
>
> #
>
> Shouldn't I be able to run yum from the command line even when the update
> service is running. I haven't seen this happen before.
>
This is centos 5.0? If so you should think about upgrading to 5.2. You
get a new yum and a new yum-updatesd which should help you around this
problem.
-sv
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