WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Mark Haney <markh at abemblem.com> wrote:
> Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me
> pretty much unable to install any software from the command line?  Did I
> configure something to make it do that?  And how in the world can I make it
> stop?

This has come up several times before. It should usually only take
PackageKit about 10-45 seconds to update after the last yum
transaction, if it goes into minutes it often means it got stuck. I'm
not sure on what but I usually have to "kill -9" it.

Richard