[CentOS] yum doesn't exit

[ken]

On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
>
>> ....
> 
> yum-updatesd is not yum.
> man yum-updateeresd
> 
> JD

Thanks, JD.  Sorry, I copy-and-pasted from the wrong machine.

Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run "yum
update", it fails like this:

  The other application is: yum-updatesd-he
    Memory :  31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ)
    Started: Tue Aug  3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:42 ago
    State  : Running, pid: 32006
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum-updatesd-he
    Memory :  31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ)
    Started: Tue Aug  3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:44 ago
    State  : Running, pid: 32006
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum-updatesd-he
    Memory :  31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ)
    Started: Tue Aug  3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:46 ago
    State  : Running, pid: 32006
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum-updatesd-he
    Memory :  31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ)
    Started: Tue Aug  3 04:40:05 2010 - 1:25:48 ago
    State  : Running, pid: 32006


Exiting on user cancel.

# ps -ef|grep yum
root       864  3195  0 06:06 pts/1    00:00:00 grep yum
root      2632     1  0 Jul27 ?        00:05:13 /usr/bin/python -tt
/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
root     32006  2632  1 04:40 ?        00:00:54 /usr/bin/python -tt
/usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus


After killing 32006, then 2632, "yum update" ran fine.  (Perhaps I
didn't need to kill the second one... 2632.  Dunno.)