yum提示Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
[root@tomcat ~]# yum repolistAnother app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: PackageKit Memory : 153 M RSS (266 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Jul 12 00:03:05 2012 - 06:17 ago State : Sleeping, pid: 14997Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: PackageKit Memory : 153 M RSS (266 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Jul 12 00:03:05 2012 - 06:19 ago State : Sleeping, pid: 14997
可能是系统自动升级正在运行,yum在锁定状态中。
已经有一个yum进程在运行了,使用kill干掉它:# kill -s 9 14997# ps aux|grep yumroot 6744 0.0 0.0 103260 900 pts/1 S+ 14:59 0:00 grep yumroot 14997 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Sep19 0:01 [yumBackend.py]1234
很遗憾,kill对付不了它,那怎么办呢?
可以通过强制关掉yum进程:
解决方法:
rm -rf /var/run/yum.pid 来强行解除锁定,然后你的yum就可以运行了