yum-updatesd

[Scott van Looy]

Today david walcroft did spake thusly:

> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:39:51PM +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd restart
>>> Stopping yum-updatesd:                                     [FAILED]
>>> Starting yum-updatesd:                                     [  OK  ]
>>> /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd status
>>> yum-updatesd dead but subsys locked
>>> Happens on both my boxen.
>>> I've googled for it but only found a couple of references in July that 
>>> don't seem to have a resolution...anyone got any ideas?
>> 
>> It's broken. There's a bugzilla entry for it....
>
> Scott
>    IIRC look in "ls /var/lock/subsys/" for yum or yum-updatesd if so delete 
> and rerun yum.

I actually did all this...removing any lock files and checking /var/run 
for any yum instances and still got the same error...

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