[CentOS] yum install hangs

Mon Jul 6 23:29:37 UTC 2009
Carlos Santana <neubyr at gmail.com>

- Process are not getting killed
- I do not have yum-updatesd service running, status returns
unrecognized service

Any help?
-
CS.


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Carlos Santana a écrit :
>> Thanks Niki.
>>
>> More specifically it hangs after:
>> Downloading Packages:
>> Running rpm_check_debug
>> Running Transaction Test
>>
>> If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message:
>> [root at localhost ~]# yum clean all
>> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 17097.
>
> In that case, I bet this is your yum-updatesd daemon interfering. Try this:
>
> # service yum-updatesd stop
>
> And then:
>
> # chkconfig yum-updatesd off
>
> Basically, you can't have two instances of Yum running at the same time.
> Up to CentOS 5.2, yum-updatesd defaulted to on, but I understand since
> 5.3 it defaults to off.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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