yum-updatesd actually work for anyone?

[Neal Becker]

Fulko.Hew at sita.aero wrote:

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> fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 07/09/2007 08:32:22 PM:
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>> Zing wrote:
>> > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:32:23 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
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>> >>on 5 different fc7 machines.  Every one of them just hangs. Does this
>> >>actually work for anyone?
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>> > I remove/disable yum-updatesd first thing.  I got tired of it locking
> me
>> > out whenever I tried to use yum cli.
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>> In my case, I just wait for a short time until the deamon finishes its
>> access of the repo.  Then I can use yum how I wish.  If I request too
>> soon, I am advised that 'another copy is running'.  I hope this was your
>> problem, else I can not help you further.
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> Yeah.... Thats what the 2nd guy is mentioning/complaining about.
> That at the most inconvinient time... that damn daemon is running
> preventing him from running yum manually.  I think that happened to
> me too, when I first installed FC7 (for testing).  It ticked _me_
> off too!  The trouble with waiting is... you don't know how long to
> wait.  So I just killed it. Happyness... I could then run yum whenever
> I wanted to.
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No, I'm pretty sure you'd have to wait forever.