The puplet that devoured pirut? (... yum) Bug or feature?
Joe Christy
joe at eshu.net
Sun Nov 11 04:39:57 UTC 2007
<whining>
I use KDE (I know, if I want Fedora to work, I must assimilate to
Gnome), and since I installed (a minimal, since anaconda barfed on
libxslt when I tried to install using the the updates repo as an
additional repo) F8, I have not been able to use either Pirut or yum to
perform an update.
</whining>
Whenever I try to do an update with either of the applications mentioned
above, I get:
[root at moby Recover]# yum update
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 4642.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Exiting on user cancel.
[root at moby Recover]# ps wwuax | egrep "yum|pup|pirut"
root 2774 0.0 0.1 247672 12688 ? SN 18:06 0:05
/usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
root 3275 0.0 0.2 248520 16892 ? S 18:07 0:00
/usr/bin/python -tt /usr/bin/puplet
root 4642 0.4 1.4 346052 122312 ? SN 20:06 0:04
/usr/bin/python -tt /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus
root 4713 0.0 0.0 82240 820 pts/3 S+ 20:25 0:00 egrep
yum|pup|pirut
and when I run pirut, it pops up a warning panel saying:
Another application is currently running which is accessing software
information.
What is puplet supposed to show me? Is /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper
supposed to do anything perceptible? Does puplet do anything under Gnome?
Is this a bug or a feature?
I know yum-updatesd was a no-op under F7. Is it the same under F8?
Joe
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