Description of problem: I started a second copy of yum to do some local updates and when the first copy finished the second exited with a traceback instead of doing the work. I do this fairly often and never saw it do this before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.21-16.fc11.noarch How reproducible: Unknown, but probably less than 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: [root@bruno bruno]# yum update -y --nogpgcheck kern*279* /usr/lib/yum-plugins/merge-conf.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import os, sys, md5 Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, dellsysidplugin, dellsysidplugin2, keys, list- : data, merge-conf, priorities, protect-packages, protectbase, : refresh-packagekit, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 28168. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 306, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 170, in main show_lock_owner(e.pid) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in show_lock_owner if data[1].endswith(' kB'): IndexError: list index out of range Expected results: Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491482 ***