Re: running yum and yum-updatesd

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:37 -0400, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> This is on a CentOS 5.0 machine.  I tried to run yum to search for php5-curl 
> and the following happens.
> 
> # yum search curl
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
> 
> # ps aux --width=200 | grep yum
> root      3773  0.0 78.0 2949520 2628188 ?     S    Feb12  
> 10:26 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
> 
> # cat /var/run/yum.pid
> 3773
> 
> #                             
> 
> Shouldn't I be able to run yum from the command line even when the update 
> service is running.  I haven't seen this happen before.
> 

This is centos 5.0? If so you should think about upgrading to 5.2. You
get a new yum and a new yum-updatesd which should help you around this
problem.

-sv