security updates causing firefox trouble?

[jackson byers]

 stan responded;

>> so, it is "Sleeping"
>> Any way to wake it up?
>> I had firefox off for 40min? no help, the process stayed
>> in its   sleeping state.

> Try invoking PackageKit manually by clicking on it.  It should find the
> earlier version and ask what you want to do about it.  When it seems
> appropriate, cancel out of the process to stop everything including the
>earlier process.

> You can run, as root,  fg %8024   That *might* wake it up.  If it doesn't,
> the alternative is to try killing the process, first with signal 15,
> kill -15 8024
> then with signal 9 if that doesn't work.  I think you will need to
> remove the lock manually if you kill the process, but I can't find
> the location of the lock.


I first logged out of X and back in.

it turned out to be easy to do;

 but i cant be certain what did it:

 ps ax |grep -i firef
 showed 8024 as before
 just before doing:

[root at f10 ~]# fg %8024
-bash: fg: %8024: no such job
[root at f10 ~]# kill -15 8024
-bash: kill: (8024) - No such process
[root at f10 ~]# kill -9 8024
-bash: kill: (8024) - No such process
[root at f10 ~]# ps ax |grep -i firef
19058 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep -i firef
[root at f10 ~]#

we see 8024 now gone.

So, one of those 3 commands, or their combination,
 resulted in killing the 8024 process.

[root at f10 ~]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.mirror.facebook.net
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * updates: mirror.stanford.edu
...
No Presto metadata available for updates
No unfinished transactions left.
-------
[root at f10 ~]# package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
No problems found
[root at f10 ~]#

It is good to have learned these commands.
Appears my system is ok,
including updated new kernel

byers at f10 ~]$ uname -a
Linux f10.pacbell.net 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 31
04:40:15 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


thanks again for the help
Jack