Description of problem: A lockfile normally stops two yum instances running in parallel. debuginfo-install doesn't grab this lock Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-utils-1.1.11-1.fc8 yum-3.2.8-2.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run yum install <some large package> 2. While that runs, run debuginfo-install <some large package> Actual results: Both run simultaneously. When the second one goes to install, it pauses with: warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 Expected results: Second command pauses with: Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 6402. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... Additional info: Both runs were downloading the metadata at the same time, although for different repos. Not sure if theres an extra lock stopping those two downloads from clobbering each other
this is fixed in upstream and will be fixed in the next release of yum-utils, thanks