Install report on rawhide of 2006-06-16 - yum lockout!

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Jun 17 23:43:56 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 04:34 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> The real killer is, however, that the yum-udatesd service is enabled by default
> and it locks out the command line use of yum and all the yum-dependent apps like
> Pirut, KYum and YumEx.

It's intentionally enabled by default (otherwise, the desktop side of
things hardly works :), but it shouldn't be locking everything out
except during the time period that it's actually checking for available
updates.

Can you strace the yum-updatesd process to see what it's doing?

Jeremy




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