{"id":221,"date":"2016-07-07T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-07-07T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T08:51:28","slug":"existing-lock-varrunyum-pid-another-copy-is-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/2016\/07\/07\/existing-lock-varrunyum-pid-another-copy-is-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Existing lock \/var\/run\/yum.pid: another copy is running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018m running the command yum update -y and getting the following error:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities<br \/>\n<strong>Existing lock \/var\/run\/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 523.<br \/>\nAnother app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nThe other application is: yum-updatesd-he<br \/>\nMemory : 14 M RSS ( 26 MB VSZ)<br \/>\nStarted: Tue Feb 9 08:19:02 2010 \u2013 14 day(s) 11:47:39 ago<br \/>\nState : Sleeping, pid: 523<br \/>\nAnother app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit\u2026<br \/>\nThe other application is: yum-updatesd-he<br \/>\nMemory : 14 M RSS ( 26 MB VSZ)<br \/>\nStarted: Tue Feb 9 08:19:02 2010 \u2013 14 day(s) 11:47:41 ago<br \/>\nState : Sleeping, pid: 523<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do I fix this problem?<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-6564\"><\/span><br \/>\nRun the following command to find out process associated with yum command:<br \/>\n<code># ps aux | grep -i yum<\/code><br \/>\nSample outputs:<\/p>\n<pre>root       523  0.0  0.7  27128 14624 ?        SN   Feb09   0:00 \/usr\/bin\/python -tt \/usr\/libexec\/yum-updatesd-helper --check --email --email-from=vivek@nixcraft.net.in --email-to=vivek@nixcraft.net.in --smtp-server=localhost:25 --sendmail\r\nroot      2875  0.0  0.5  26456 10620 ?        SN   Jan23   0:00 \/usr\/bin\/python -tt \/usr\/sbin\/yum-updatesd\r\nroot     25840  0.0  0.6  24224 12800 ?        Ss   11:58   0:14 \/usr\/bin\/python \/usr\/bin\/yum update -y\r\nroot     26665  0.1  0.6  24228 12784 ?        Ss   20:02   0:00 \/usr\/bin\/python \/usr\/bin\/yum update -y\r\nroot     26785  0.0  0.0   4128   608 pts\/0    S+   20:06   0:00 grep yum<\/pre>\n<p>Kill PID 523, 25840, and 26665:<br \/>\n<code># kill -9 523<br \/>\n# killall -9 yum<\/code><br \/>\nNow run the following:<br \/>\n<code># yum update -y<\/code><br \/>\nMake sure you start yum-updatesd:<br \/>\n<code># \/etc\/init.d\/yum-updatesd start<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018m running the command yum update -y and getting the following error: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Existing lock \/var\/run\/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 523. Another app\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/symbioticindia.in\/docu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}