Tuesday, April 7, 2009

How to resolve Locked YUM

Mistakenly many times YUM is locked. When this happens for such problem like
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 18092.

Here's the way to resolve.
Locate the yum.pid file, usually in fedora, it is located in /var/run dir
cd /var/run
ls
vim yum.pid

press insert
delete pid number and save pressing esc + : + x then press enter

now run your yum command
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    I simple kill the process
    ps aux|grep yum
    kill -9 [PID]

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  2. RandApril 20, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    You should be careful about getting rid of processes running yum, as they might be in the middle of installing something. At least by my book, I always try to give the process 30 sec.s before worrying about getting around the lock

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  3. AnonymousOctober 8, 2010 at 3:40 PM

    or better yet, attach strace to the process and make sure it isnt doing anything first.

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  4. Mostanser BillahFebruary 13, 2011 at 4:30 AM

    but sometimes simply killing process does not work you know

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  5. PRADEEP KUMARFebruary 26, 2012 at 8:12 PM

    I just deleted pid number...and started yum for vlc installation and it worked....
    thanks...

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