"killall yum" is your friend Am 05.09.2012 12:55, schrieb Yashar Pezeshki: > 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 > > > > -- Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / CISO / Software-Development p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/ http://www.thelounge.net/signature.asc.what.htm
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