Re: yum updates and FC 6/7

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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:26:19 -0500
> From: Brian Long <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Yum] yum updates and FC 6/7
> To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <[email protected]>
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> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:17 -0500, Dave Frazier wrote:
> > Just want to confirm my understanding of a couple of points ...
> >
> > I have an FC 6 instance where yum update no longer runs. I'm assuming
> > that this is because FC 6 is now de-supported.
>
> Correct.
>
> > My FC 7 instance is running as a web server and so is always on. It
> > seems as if I have to reboot the box to re-initiate the yum update
> > cycle. Am I missing something here?
>
> Why would you have to reboot?  Do you get an error message when you run
> "yum update"?  In some cases, yum-updatesd might have a lock in place
> which makes yum update fail.  You can either wait for it to give up the
> lock or turn off yum-updatesd and run "yum update".
>
> /Brian/
>
>
Thanks for your responses.

"yum update" worked (on the FC7 server).

(I'll check for locks if it happens in the future, though.)

Dave



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