F9 & F10: Add/Remove Software program leaves behind a running process that cannot be stopped.

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 17 22:58:23 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:39 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that running "Add/Remove Software" program,
> after you have selected items therein, completed the installation,
> or if you decided cancel out the selections and terminate the A/R
> Software program, there appears in the Task Notification, a package
> icon, and in it, says "Waiting for other task"?  There was nothing
> that I could find in `ps' (processID) nor was there any way to terminate
> the package icon since no menu item is available to do so?  The only
> way that I could stop this was to reboot the system.  Does anyone have
> this problem or is there a way to terminate this package icon in the task
> notification area without rebooting?
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I saw it last night but it eventually did satisfy itself and exit out.

I gathered that the problem was that it seemed to be an update for the
rpmfusion repo files themselves which did get updated when I ran yum
update from cli.

Craig




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