Michael Yep <myep <at> remotelink.com> writes: > > After starting yum it was doing a 300+ pkg update, and it never > finished. Now I cannot run yum, and rpm seems to be broke too. > In addition I cannot issue a Ctrl-C command, I must hit Ctrl-Z and do a > kill -9 on the yum process. How do I find out what yum is doing and how > to get it back to normal? > > This is what yum says now: > > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > > [1]+ Stopped ./u > [root <at> localhost ]# ps aux |grep yum > First, make sure yum isn't running, then delete file as follows: - rm -f /var/run/yum.pid If the file is not there, try: - locate yum.pid If it can't find it, it's probably gone, otherwise delete it using the `rm` command above, but with the correct fiole path as determined by the locate statement. Then clear out the yum caches with: - yum clean all That should do the trick. If "yum clean all" comes up with a message: "Existing lock /foo/bar/yum.pid" then you've found the yum.pid you need to delete before trying "yum clean all" again.
