Description of problem:
Whenever trying to any packages via yum I quite often get a message that PackageKit has yum locked.
How reproducible:
Often
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to run a yum update or a yum install <package>
Actual results:
[root@Fedora17 dan]# yum install telnet
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto,
: refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 1810.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 43 M RSS (447 MB VSZ)
Started: Sun Apr 15 13:01:37 2012 - 00:07 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 1810
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 43 M RSS (447 MB VSZ)
Started: Sun Apr 15 13:01:37 2012 - 00:09 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 1810
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
updates-debuginfo/metalink | 16 kB 00:00
updates-testing-debuginfo/metalink | 12 kB 00:00
* fedora: mirrors.solfo.com
* fedora-debuginfo: mirrors.kernel.org
* updates: mirrors.usc.edu
* updates-debuginfo: mirrors.usc.edu
* updates-testing: mirrors.solfo.com
* updates-testing-debuginfo: mirrors.solfo.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package telnet.x86_64 1:0.17-52.fc17 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
telnet x86_64 1:0.17-52.fc17 fedora 61 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 61 k
Installed size: 113 k
Is this ok [y/N]:
Expected results:
PackageKit should lock yum way less often.
As seen in the history this has hapepned over multiple releases of Fedora, and
is currently happening extremely often in Fedora 17 and is quite annoying. We
should not go final with this kind of issue. Proposed as a Fedora 17 final
blocker.
Waiting for 9 seconds is no problem, waiting for 9 minutes is! If you kill that PID that holds the lock, PackageKit immediately spawns another thread and locks it again.
Let's have the earlier filed bug with more information as the 'primary' bug and the later filed bug with less information as the dupe, rather than the other way around, shall we?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 810530 ***
Description of problem: Whenever trying to any packages via yum I quite often get a message that PackageKit has yum locked. How reproducible: Often Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to run a yum update or a yum install <package> Actual results: [root@Fedora17 dan]# yum install telnet Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, : refresh-packagekit Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 1810. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: PackageKit Memory : 43 M RSS (447 MB VSZ) Started: Sun Apr 15 13:01:37 2012 - 00:07 ago State : Sleeping, pid: 1810 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: PackageKit Memory : 43 M RSS (447 MB VSZ) Started: Sun Apr 15 13:01:37 2012 - 00:09 ago State : Sleeping, pid: 1810 Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile updates-debuginfo/metalink | 16 kB 00:00 updates-testing-debuginfo/metalink | 12 kB 00:00 * fedora: mirrors.solfo.com * fedora-debuginfo: mirrors.kernel.org * updates: mirrors.usc.edu * updates-debuginfo: mirrors.usc.edu * updates-testing: mirrors.solfo.com * updates-testing-debuginfo: mirrors.solfo.com Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package telnet.x86_64 1:0.17-52.fc17 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: telnet x86_64 1:0.17-52.fc17 fedora 61 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package Total download size: 61 k Installed size: 113 k Is this ok [y/N]: Expected results: PackageKit should lock yum way less often.