While I was trying to make rpm installation by yum, it gave below error

[root@veridata ~]# yum install pdksh*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 8432.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 85 M RSS (513 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Mar 14 21:19:39 2019 - 01:41 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 8432
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 85 M RSS (513 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Mar 14 21:19:39 2019 - 01:43 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 8432
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 85 M RSS (513 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Mar 14 21:19:39 2019 - 01:45 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 8432

So how We can handle this error? Here is the step:

First check which process keep busy yum

[root@veridata ~]# ps aux | grep yum
root 8432 8.4 4.5 525300 86544 ? SN 21:19 0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py get-updates none
root 9965 0.0 0.0 112712 980 pts/0 S+ 21:21 0:00 grep --color=auto yum
As you can see process 8432 access yum. So let us kill it and retry to use yum
[root@veridata ~]# kill -9 8432

 

Reklam