yum problem

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. joseph_sacco at comcast.net
Mon Feb 21 08:37:28 MST 2005


(1) insure that no yum sessions are actually running
(2) remove the pid file
(3) try again

-Joseph
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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 09:17, Kevin McMahon wrote:
> can anyone help me with this, I was doing a 'yum install mysql-devel'
> and it stopped at about 3kb with the download and I rebooted and
> everytime I try it again or with any yum install I get this message:
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
> 
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