yum-updatesd actually work for anyone?
Zing
zing at fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 10 22:27:50 UTC 2007
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:40:37 -0400, Fulko.Hew wrote:
> fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 07/09/2007 08:32:22 PM:
>
>> Zing wrote:
>> > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:32:23 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> >
>> >>on 5 different fc7 machines. Every one of them just hangs. Does this
>> >>actually work for anyone?
>> >
>> >
>> > I remove/disable yum-updatesd first thing. I got tired of it locking
> me
>> > out whenever I tried to use yum cli.
>> >
>> In my case, I just wait for a short time until the deamon finishes its
>> access of the repo. Then I can use yum how I wish. If I request too
>> soon, I am advised that 'another copy is running'. I hope this was
>> your problem, else I can not help you further.
>
> Yeah.... Thats what the 2nd guy is mentioning/complaining about. That at
> the most inconvinient time... that damn daemon is running preventing him
> from running yum manually. I think that happened to me too, when I
> first installed FC7 (for testing). It ticked _me_ off too! The trouble
> with waiting is... you don't know how long to wait. So I just killed
> it. Happyness... I could then run yum whenever I wanted to.
it would be great if some yum/python ace could bring rpm's ability to
have multiple/parallel installs running at the same time to yum. this
problem would disappear.
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