Bug 109827 - yum --help refuses to run in parallel to other yum
Summary: yum --help refuses to run in parallel to other yum
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-12 05:31 UTC by Ralf Corsepius
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-11-21 22:44:00 UTC
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2003-11-12 05:31:33 UTC 
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Description of problem:
yum --help refuses to run in parallel to another active yum.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start one yum whose operation takes some time, eg. run 
yum update openoffice.org
without having openoffice.org previously installed (Using a modem this
takes hours).

2. Start a second terminal, try to invoke yum --help
    

Actual Results:
# yum --help
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.

IMO, there should not by any reason, why displaying the help text
should require locking the PID-file.


Expected Results:  yum should display its help text.
Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2003-11-12 19:11:55 UTC 
triage->upstream
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