Re: Re: Yum unable to install while yum-updatesd running

On Dec 11, 2007 8:43 AM, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:36 -0700, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote:
> > On Dec 5, 2007 11:37 AM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Back in the old days, when periodic yum updates where a cron-job,
> > > I was able to issue 'yum install ...' or 'yum update ...' commands
> > > with impunity.
> > >
> > > I'm running CentOS 5.1 and seeing the following:
> > > [root@dmurray ~]# yum install perl-Date-Manip
> > > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
> > > [root@dmurray ~]# echo $( cat /var/run/yum.pid )
> > > 16744
> > > [root@dmurray ~]# service yum-updatesd status
> > > yum-updatesd (pid 16744) is running...
> > > [root@dmurray ~]# rpm -q yum yum-updatesd
> > > yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5
> > > yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5
> > > [root@dmurray ~]#
> > >
> > > If I merely _restart_ yum-updatesd, I can then immediately
> > > do a 'yum ...' command as desired.
> > >
> > > What's the idiomatic way to update or install via yum, while
> > > yum-updatesd is running?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Is there something
> > I should change in my yum-updatesd.conf?
> >
> > dmurray@dmurray:/home/dmurray 0> grep -v "^#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
> > [main]
> > run_interval = 3600
> > updaterefresh = 600
> > emit_via = dbus
> > dbus_listener = yes
> > do_update = yes
> > do_download = yes
> > do_download_deps = yes
> >
> >
> > I'm considering punting yum-updatesd and using a cron job
> > instead.
>
> until rhel/centos 5.2 comes out that is probably not a bad idea.
>
> -sv
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Thanks Seth. We'll switch to cron for now.