07-22-2011
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
I'm trying to install wireshark on Fedora(latest version with gnome3) and I keep getting the above error. I keep killing the offending process after finding it's pid using "ps aux | grep yum", but the same process spawns again with a different pid. root 1605 0.0 3.4 54424 26228 ? SN 10:51 0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py get-updates none How can I properly kill this process, or use yum to install wireshark properly?
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yum-updatesd.conf
yum-updatesd.conf(5) yum-updatesd configuration file yum-updatesd.conf(5)
NAME
yum-updatesd.conf - Configuration file for yum-updatesd(8).
DESCRIPTION
yum-updatesd uses a configuration file at /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf.
Additional configuration information is read from the main yum.conf (5) configuration file.
PARAMETERS
There is one section in the yum-updatesd configuration file, main, which defines all of the global configuration options.
[main] OPTIONS
The [main] section must exist for yum-updatesd to do anything. It consists of the following options:
run_interval
Number of seconds to wait between checks for available updates.
updaterefresh
Minimum number of seconds between update information refreshes to avoid hitting the server too often.
emit_via
List of ways to emit update notification. Valid values are `email', `dbus' and `syslog'.
do_update
Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically applied. Defaults to False.
do_download_deps
Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically downloaded. Defaults to False.
do_download_deps
Boolean option to automatically download dependencies of packages which need updating as well. Defaults to False.
MAIL OPTIONS
email_to
List of email addresses to send update notification to. Defaults to `root@localhost'.
email_from
Email address for update notifications to be from. Defaults to `yum-updatesd@localhost'.
SYSLOG OPTIONS
syslog_facility
What syslog facility should be used. Defaults to `DAEMON'.
syslog_level
Level of syslog messages. Defaults to `WARN'.
FILES
/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
SEE ALSO
yum-updatesd(8) yum.conf(5)
Jeremy Katz yum-updatesd.conf(5)