Hello every one
I am a new user of CentOS, I have installed "CentOS-5.8-i386" as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 9.0 for learning purposes.
There is a frequented problems, when I want to use "Add/Remove software", I get this error message:
"another application is currently running which is accessing software information."
I have tried to know what's the problem from seaching, but, without any good answer.
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:49:27PM -0800, Bassem Sossan wrote:
Hello every one
I am a new user of CentOS, I have installed "CentOS-5.8-i386" as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 9.0 for learning purposes.
There is a frequented problems, when I want to use "Add/Remove software", I get this error message:
"another application is currently running which is accessing software information."
The chances are that if you run
chkconfig --list |grep on
you will see that yum-updatesd (or something similar, I've forgotten the name) is starting at boot. (Or do ls /etc/init.d and look for something with yum in the name.)
You can stop it (though it might take awhile to stop) with (once you determine the exact name, but we'll assume it's yum-updatesd) with
service yum-updatesd stop
chkconfig yum-updatesd off
The second command will keep it from running at boot.
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Bassem Sossan -
James Hogarth -
Scott Robbins