fedora12, yum not releasing "lock" after performing an action
- by James.Elsey
Hello,
This problem has been occurring quite frequently recently and I can't seem to find a way of preventing it. Whenever I perform an action with yum such as to install or remove software, it appears to execute successfully but then I'm unable to move onto the next yum command
For example, I executed yum remove skype, it appeared to remove ok, but next when I try to yum search skype it appears that yum is still processing, and I have to manually kill that process via kill 1234 (or whatever the PID is)
My output is as follows
[root@nevada james]# yum remove skype
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package skype.i586 0:2.1.0.47-fc10 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
skype i586 2.1.0.47-fc10 installed 24 M
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 1 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : skype-2.1.0.47-fc10.i586 1/1
Removed:
skype.i586 0:2.1.0.47-fc10
Complete!
[root@nevada james]# yum search skype
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 3639.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 79 M RSS (372 MB VSZ)
Started: Fri Dec 18 08:39:18 2009 - 00:01 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 3639
Kernel version : 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
Any ideas how I can prevent this behaviour?
Thanks
