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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.
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
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 Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.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. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.