[Yum] help needed in yum installation

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:29 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response. I cud install yum. But I cant use it.
> It says the following:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at onsager Download]# yum -y update
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2806. 
> Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to
> exit...
> Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to
> exit...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 


ah, this is on f7.

/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd stop

then see if it works.

the solution is to upgrade to f8 where yum-updatesd is much much much
better and doesn't break lots of things.

-sv