yum-updatesd problem

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:36:01PM +0200, Lars G wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 03:45 -0400, Build System wrote:
> ...
> > yum-2.9.1-2
> > -----------
> > * Tue Jun 27 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 2.9.1-2
> > - move yum-updatesd into a subpackage
> > - no longer ship the yum update cronjob, yum-updatesd can do this instead
> > 
> > * Tue Jun 20 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 2.9.1-1
> > - update to 2.9.1
> > 
> > * Mon Jun 19 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at redhat.com> - 2.9.0-8
> > - Fix resolvedeps
> ...
> 
> after updating yum and installing the new yum-updatesd package,
> starting yum-updatesd service errors with:
> "yum-updatesd dead but subsys locked" and the process closes.
> 
> 
> cheers
> -- 
> Lars

I had this too, restarting the yum-updatesd service cured it for me.