FC8 yum-updatesd-helper hangs

[Jim Cornette]

Chu Tan wrote:
> It is working normally now. I think it is because of the load in one of
> the mirrors.
> 
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 22:19 -0600, Chu Tan wrote: 
>> Just installed FC8 Gnome live CD. Anyone has this problem that the
>> following process never completes and occupying a lock on yum? I have to
>> kill -9 on the helper process to be able to use yum.
>>
>> root      2138  1814  1 22:07 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/python
>> -tt /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus
>>
>> This happens everything I boot up.
>>
> 

Apparently the update daemon helper is designed to download updates 
quietly (without letting the user know what is going on) to your system.
It maintains a lock on yum while this process is being completed. This 
inconveniences anyone who tries to use Add/Remove or the software 
updater during this period. I would prefer a bit of more feedback to the 
user other than what is presently available.
When either pup or pirut is run and the update daemon is busy, feedback 
should be given to the user which states the daemon is busy with 
downloading packages and a message should be presented back to the user 
once pup or pirut can be used again.

There is a bug filed for this problem that was already posted earlier in 
another thread. I believe the daemon program was designed to download 
without warning.

Jim

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