Another application holding yum lock.

August 20, 2009 at 6:34 pm (1)

Many a times it so happens that when you trying to do some stuff with yum command when you are connected to internet.It shows

“Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit…”

you can resolve that by following the command

# ps aux | grep yum

This shows you the processes holding the yum lock.

Now you can do:

# kill -9 31542
or
# kill 31542

or whatever the processes may be.

Now your yum will work fine.

2 Comments

  1. tushar said,

    September 9, 2009 at 8:50 am

    good work.. yumMY

    Reply

    • yevlempy said,

      September 9, 2009 at 9:09 am

      Thanks. Trying to do some big stuff now.

      Reply

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