The puplet that devoured pirut? (... yum) Bug or feature?
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Nov 11 04:56:50 UTC 2007
Joe Christy wrote:
> <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
>
I had the error also. I stopped the deamon via the GUI services program
and still had the error. I eventually went to a terminal su - to root
and ran yum -y update. It informed me of a lock file so I removed the
lock file and afterward ran yum -y update successfully to update the
system. It is either pup or pirut which fails to get rid of the lock
file after exiting, I assume pirut (Add/remove programs) is not removing
the lock file for yum on exit.
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