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

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:49:01AM -0700, Donald Murray, P.Eng. enlightened us:
> > 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.

CentOS 5 has a yum-cron package that replicates the old behavior.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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