stan responded; >> so, it is "Sleeping" >> Any way to wake it up? >> I had firefox off for 40min? no help, the process stayed >> in its sleeping state. > Try invoking PackageKit manually by clicking on it. It should find the > earlier version and ask what you want to do about it. When it seems > appropriate, cancel out of the process to stop everything including the >earlier process. > You can run, as root, fg %8024 That *might* wake it up. If it doesn't, > the alternative is to try killing the process, first with signal 15, > kill -15 8024 > then with signal 9 if that doesn't work. I think you will need to > remove the lock manually if you kill the process, but I can't find > the location of the lock. I first logged out of X and back in. it turned out to be easy to do; but i cant be certain what did it: ps ax |grep -i firef showed 8024 as before just before doing: [root@f10 ~]# fg %8024 -bash: fg: %8024: no such job [root@f10 ~]# kill -15 8024 -bash: kill: (8024) - No such process [root@f10 ~]# kill -9 8024 -bash: kill: (8024) - No such process [root@f10 ~]# ps ax |grep -i firef 19058 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep -i firef [root@f10 ~]# we see 8024 now gone. So, one of those 3 commands, or their combination, resulted in killing the 8024 process. [root@f10 ~]# yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: fedora.mirror.facebook.net * rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com * updates: mirror.stanford.edu ... No Presto metadata available for updates No unfinished transactions left. ------- [root@f10 ~]# package-cleanup --problems Setting up yum Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata Reading local RPM database Processing all local requires No problems found [root@f10 ~]# It is good to have learned these commands. Appears my system is ok, including updated new kernel byers@f10 ~]$ uname -a Linux f10.pacbell.net 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 31 04:40:15 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux thanks again for the help Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines