On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:29 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I cud install yum. But I cant use it. > It says the following: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [root@onsager Download]# yum -y update > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2806. > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to > exit... > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to > exit... > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ah, this is on f7. /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd stop then see if it works. the solution is to upgrade to f8 where yum-updatesd is much much much better and doesn't break lots of things. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
