On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: > From: ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> .... > > yum-updatesd is not yum. > man yum-updateeresd > > JD Thanks, JD. Sorry, I copy-and-pasted from the wrong machine. Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run "yum update", it fails like this: The other application is: yum-updatesd-he Memory : 31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ) Started: Tue Aug 3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:42 ago State : Running, pid: 32006 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum-updatesd-he Memory : 31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ) Started: Tue Aug 3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:44 ago State : Running, pid: 32006 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum-updatesd-he Memory : 31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ) Started: Tue Aug 3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:46 ago State : Running, pid: 32006 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum-updatesd-he Memory : 31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ) Started: Tue Aug 3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:48 ago State : Running, pid: 32006 Exiting on user cancel. # ps -ef|grep yum root 864 3195 0 06:06 pts/1 00:00:00 grep yum root 2632 1 0 Jul27 ? 00:05:13 /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd root 32006 2632 1 04:40 ? 00:00:54 /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus After killing 32006, then 2632, "yum update" ran fine. (Perhaps I didn't need to kill the second one... 2632. Dunno.) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos