Re: how to stop yum update -

[Yashar Pezeshki <yashari@xxxxxxxxx>]

CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the process id of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" will automatically replace the process id in front of the kill command. And if anything went wrong with your yum database, you can simply run "yum clean all" to clean your database, and any other time that you try to update your packages, it will be rebuild.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/09/12 05:36, Suvayu Ali responds:

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:08:47AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

    I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early
    morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying
    to find another update. I can live with that and just try again
    later but there is no graceful way to tell yum to stop!

Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread.
You could corrupt your package database.

You can simply hit Ctrl+c; yum/python is smart enough to under stand the
user is trying to cancel.  If it is downloading somehting, it will say
to hit Ctrl+c again within 20s to confirm (or something along those
lines), after the second Ctrl+c yum quits gracefully.

   I wasn't able to kill it anyway since top in an another terminal
   didn't show yum I had no PID.

   Several CTRL+c's did nothing I could see, nor did a stream of
   perhaps ten. It just keeps trying and seems to ignore my effort to
   stop.


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