I ran into this from the package manager, which indicated failure. "details" showed the zombie pid; killing it worked. On 09/05/2012 06:55 AM, Yashar Pezeshki wrote: > 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 <mailto: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. > > > -- > http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD > > box9 > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.__org/mailman/listinfo/users > <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/__Mailing_list_guidelines > <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > > > -- clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
