The puplet that devoured pirut? (... yum) Bug or feature?

[David C. Chipman]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:39:57 -0800
Joe Christy <joe at eshu.net> wrote:

Hi Joe, 
 
> Whenever I try to do an update with either of the applications
> mentioned above, I get:
> 
> [root at moby Recover]# yum update
> Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 4642.
> Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to
> exit... 

The problem is one of the yum-related programs left the yum.pid file
behind. This fact is mentioned in the error output you have
provided. Delete that file (/var/run/yum.pid), as root, and you should
be good-to-go! Later, 

		-David Chipman