Today david walcroft did spake thusly:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:39:51PM +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd restart
Stopping yum-updatesd: [FAILED]
Starting yum-updatesd: [ OK ]
/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd status
yum-updatesd dead but subsys locked
Happens on both my boxen.
I've googled for it but only found a couple of references in July that
don't seem to have a resolution...anyone got any ideas?
It's broken. There's a bugzilla entry for it....
Scott
IIRC look in "ls /var/lock/subsys/" for yum or yum-updatesd if so delete
and rerun yum.
I actually did all this...removing any lock files and checking /var/run
for any yum instances and still got the same error...
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