Re: yum doesn't exit

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Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM, JohnS <jses27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update
>> will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why
>> yum update ran.
>
> Oh?  I run yum-updatesd as a service (by dafult, not by any specific
> intent), but as far as I can tell, it has never interfered with me
> running a yum update.

Presumably because it's doing it overnight, and is done. You cannot run
yum while it's running - they both want the same locks, and both are
updating the same database. Bad, and so they prevent you from doing so.

      mark

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