I think I broke yum
A Booth
bootha at telspan.com
Mon Jan 15 21:50:56 UTC 2007
Michael Yep <myep <at> remotelink.com> writes:
>
> After starting yum it was doing a 300+ pkg update, and it never
> finished. Now I cannot run yum, and rpm seems to be broke too.
> In addition I cannot issue a Ctrl-C command, I must hit Ctrl-Z and do a
> kill -9 on the yum process. How do I find out what yum is doing and how
> to get it back to normal?
>
> This is what yum says now:
>
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>
> [1]+ Stopped ./u
> [root <at> localhost ]# ps aux |grep yum
>
First, make sure yum isn't running, then delete file as follows: -
rm -f /var/run/yum.pid
If the file is not there, try: -
locate yum.pid
If it can't find it, it's probably gone, otherwise delete it using the `rm`
command above, but with the correct fiole path as determined by the locate
statement.
Then clear out the yum caches with: -
yum clean all
That should do the trick. If "yum clean all" comes up with a message: "Existing
lock /foo/bar/yum.pid" then you've found the yum.pid you need to delete before
trying "yum clean all" again.
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