The puplet that devoured pirut? (... yum) Bug or feature?

[Chu Tan]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 21:50 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:

> Stopping the service at runlevel 5 did nothing to free the lock. For
> some reason I could not kill the running process using top.  In the
> end I disabled the service for all runlevels ( 3,4 & 5) and rebooted.

I think it is just a temporal problem at the remote side. I had the same
problem this morning, but it works normally now. I recommend just kill
-9 the helper process to get to yum. Hopefully it'll fix itself later on
and you don't have to go through the trouble to reenable the service
again.