On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:09:16PM -0400, Jesse Petre wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I just installed Fedora, and I'm having a few issues...hopefully someone can
> help. When I go to Add/Remove Programs (package manager) it says that:
> "Another application is running which is accessing software information" and
> then closes. Also, when I try to install something in Yum, it returns:
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
> Everything is sitting idle, and I'm not running any programs. What's going
> on? This is a fresh install...
The presence of /var/run/yum.pid indicates either that another copy of
yum is running, or that a copy shut down violently, and left its lock
file in place.
If you are certain that there is no copy of yum running ("ps aux |
grep yum"), delete the lock file and continue.
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