Re: The puplet that devoured pirut? (... yum) Bug or feature?

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2007/11/11, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Joe Christy wrote:
> > <whining>
> > I use KDE (I know, if I want Fedora to work, I must assimilate to
> > Gnome), and since I installed (a minimal, since anaconda barfed on
> > libxslt when I tried to install using the the updates repo as an
> > additional repo) F8, I have not been able to use either Pirut or yum to
> > perform an update.
> > </whining>
> >
> > Whenever I try to do an update with either of the applications mentioned
> > above, I get:
> >
> > [root@moby Recover]# yum update
> > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 4642.
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
> >
> >
> > Exiting on user cancel.
> > [root@moby Recover]# ps wwuax | egrep "yum|pup|pirut"
> > root      2774  0.0  0.1 247672 12688 ?        SN   18:06   0:05
> > /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
> > root      3275  0.0  0.2 248520 16892 ?        S    18:07   0:00
> > /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/bin/puplet
> > root      4642  0.4  1.4 346052 122312 ?       SN   20:06   0:04
> > /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus
> > root      4713  0.0  0.0  82240   820 pts/3    S+   20:25   0:00 egrep
> > yum|pup|pirut
> >
> > and when I run pirut, it pops up a warning panel saying:
> >
> > Another application is currently running which is accessing software
> > information.
> >
> > What is puplet supposed to show me? Is /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper
> > supposed to do anything perceptible? Does puplet do anything under Gnome?
> >
> > Is this a bug or a feature?
> >
> > I know yum-updatesd was a no-op under F7. Is it the same under F8?
> >
> >       Joe
> >
>
>
> I had the error also. I stopped the deamon via the GUI services program
> and still had the error. I eventually went to a terminal su - to root
> and ran yum -y update. It informed me of a lock file so I removed the
> lock file and afterward ran yum -y update successfully to update the
> system. It is either pup or pirut which fails to get rid of the lock
> file after exiting, I assume pirut (Add/remove programs) is not removing
> the lock file for yum on exit.
>
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> -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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i have the same error (using yumex): where is the lock file???

This bug is preventing to make any update (adding nvidia, etc, etc): I
assume that everybody is impacting on it....
-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag


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