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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Are you crazy? You just don't sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk, you stomp, or... yodel.