Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update >> will not run! IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why >> yum update ran. > > Oh? I run yum-updatesd as a service (by dafult, not by any specific > intent), but as far as I can tell, it has never interfered with me > running a yum update. Presumably because it's doing it overnight, and is done. You cannot run yum while it's running - they both want the same locks, and both are updating the same database. Bad, and so they prevent you from doing so. mark