[CentOS] yum doesn't exit

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

ken wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
>>> ....
<snip>
> 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
<snip>
> # 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.)

Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not*
have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what. Certainly,
I don't want to update, say, firefox while folks are using it on their
desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious, but I
have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.

       mark