On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, all. > > I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU & sending the load averages over 2.00. > > I've disabled it via the GUI in Software & rebooted but it's still running every five minutes. > > Is there a way of dealing with this via the cli? This is on Fedora 20. This is with gnome-shell active and logged into? This is probably spawned by pk-offline-update. You can read more about this here: http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/11/18/offline-updates-in-fedora-20/ And to disable it systemctl disable packagekit-offline-update.service systemctl stop packagekit-offline-update.service Of course, you're now going to need to get updates manually some other way Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org