Bug 513376

Summary:	yum locking message is vague
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, pmatilai, rhughes, richard, smparrish, tim.lauridsen
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Description Christopher Beland 2009-07-23 11:52:30 UTC

I left "yum update" running overnight because I didn't answer "y" or "n" to the line Is this ok [y/N]:".  At some point, the system tried to check for updates and I got a popup message saying that another application was locking the packaging backend.  (The exact message is not copy-and-paste-able.)

When I clicked on "More details", it displayed "Yum is locked by another application. details: None".  This is the part of the popup which I think could be improved.  I would expect the name of the locking application to be listed here (something like "yum (command line)" and it would be even more helpful if it had the username of the desktop login where it is running, or which virtual terminal - anything that would help track down what needs to be unstuck.

yum-3.2.23-3.fc11.noarch

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-07-23 13:08:30 UTC

yum's lock message includes the pid and other information - so it is up to the app to do something with it.

reassigning to PK

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2009-07-23 14:16:31 UTC

Thanks Seth:

commit 9ac5fa6c71ab65aef00c84c0b25451220a6e9f62
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Thu Jul 23 15:14:08 2009 +0100

    When we fail to get the lock, print the process information in the error details. Fixes rh#513376

:100755 100755 8408081... 8525f04... M  backends/yum/yumBackend.py

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-08-03 14:33:08 UTC

PackageKit-0.4.9-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.4.9-1.fc11

Comment 4 Christopher Beland 2009-08-17 18:53:29 UTC

Confirmed to be fixed in PackageKit-0.4.9-1.fc11.i586.  Thanks!

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-08-22 01:01:04 UTC

PackageKit-0.4.9-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.