security updates causing firefox trouble?

[stan]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:29:23 -0700
jackson byers <byersjab at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is current
> [root at f10 ~]# ps ax |grep -i firef
>  8024 ?        SN     1:05 /usr/bin/python
> /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py update-packages
> firefox;3.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-extras;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-gtkhtml2;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&gnome-python2-libegg;2.19.1-33.fc10;i386;updates&kernel-devel;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i686;updates&kernel-firmware;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;noarch;updates&kernel-headers;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i386;updates&kernel;2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10;i686;updates&xulrunner-devel;1.9.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&xulrunner;1.9.0.13-1.fc10;i386;updates&yelp;2.24.0-12.fc10;i386;updates
> 15138 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/firefox
> 15165 ?        Sl     2:55 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/firefox
> 15394 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep -i firef
> 
> 
> how can i tell if this update is finished or stalled or whatever?
> 
> I have never before seen this seemingly stalled response to doing
> security updates.
> 
> Sam's   advice was to not kill the python-- yum process.
> What other options do I have?
 
You are trying to update firefox while it is running.  While this is
theoretically possible, it is also possible that firefox has locked a
component that the update process needs to access.  In other words, get
out of firefox until the updates complete.

If you leave firefox down and the process doesn't complete in a half
hour, kill the update process.

I use yum from command line.  Would then do,

Log out of X, log back in to pick up any changes from packages already
installed.  Open a terminal and su to root.  Or you can log out of X
and open a console, say ctrl-alt-F2, and log in as root to do the
following.

yum install yum-utils

yum-complete-transaction

No joy?

yum clean all

package-cleanup --problems
If this returns problems, fix them.

Look at all pending updates
yum list updates | less

Get the firefox update out of the way if it isn't done.
yum update firefox

Do the rest of the updates in one huge chunk.  
yum update