Issue with yum updating

Patrick Topping ptopping at pobox.com
Mon Nov 3 16:29:59 UTC 2008


No change.......

[root at turtle init.d]# pkill yum
[root at turtle init.d]# pgrep -fl yum
[root at turtle init.d]#

-Patrick

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[root at turtle init.d]# pkill yum
[root at turtle init.d]# pgrep -fl yum
[root at turtle init.d]#  yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
0 metadata files removed
0 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed

[root at turtle init.d]#  yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
 Eg. /
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: 
//var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:04 -0800, Patrick Topping wrote:
>   
>> I have tried that but getting the following error:
>>
>> ptopping at tonic
>> [/home/ptopping]$ sudo yum clean metadata
>> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
>> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 12657.
>> 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...
>>
>> I have checked /var/run and there isn't a file yum.pid:
>>
>> [root at turtle log]# ls -l yum*
>> -rw------- 1 root root 31917 2008-10-14 06:24 yum.log
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30874 2008-01-22 13:29 yum.log-20080123
>> -rw------- 1 root root 31661 2008-04-24 08:09 yum.log-20080424
>>
>> Any thoughts...????
>>     
>
> # pkill yum
>
> (or "pgrep -fl yum" to check, and then pkill).
>
> poc
>
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>
>   




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