Bug 1043999

Summary: yum should not output a critical error if it's waiting for a lock
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Devin Bayer <dev>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: admiller, dev, ffesti, firas.alkafri, jzeleny, packaging-team-maint
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Description Devin Bayer 2013-12-17 15:13:06 UTC
yum tries to lock /var/run/yum.pid and if another running process owns the lock, it continues trying every two seconds. Each attempt produces a critical error message:

Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 16502.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: yum
    Memory :  89 M RSS (361 MB VSZ)
    Started: Mon Dec 16 04:16:09 2013 - 00:03 ago
    State  : Running, pid: 16502

If the other process is transient, yum continues normally. But the critical error level means it can't be filtered out. We run a configuration management system every five minutes which calls "yum check-update" and yum-cron, which updates all packages daily. When we're unlucky, their runs coincide and an we receive an error email from cron.

I would like to see that yum does not consider a normal and transient state as a critical error so it's not output if --quiet or --errorlevel=0 is used.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:20:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 20:04:17 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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