On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:37 -0400, Thomas Bennett wrote: > This is on a CentOS 5.0 machine. I tried to run yum to search for php5-curl > and the following happens. > > # yum search curl > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting. > > # ps aux --width=200 | grep yum > root 3773 0.0 78.0 2949520 2628188 ? S Feb12 > 10:26 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd > > # cat /var/run/yum.pid > 3773 > > # > > Shouldn't I be able to run yum from the command line even when the update > service is running. I haven't seen this happen before. > This is centos 5.0? If so you should think about upgrading to 5.2. You get a new yum and a new yum-updatesd which should help you around this problem. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
