yumBackend.py

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU & sending the load averages over 2.00.
> 
> I've disabled it via the GUI in Software & rebooted but it's still running every five minutes.
> 
> Is there a way of dealing with this via the cli? This is on Fedora 20.

This is with gnome-shell active and logged into? This is probably spawned by pk-offline-update. You can read more about this here:
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/11/18/offline-updates-in-fedora-20/

And to disable it

systemctl disable packagekit-offline-update.service
systemctl stop packagekit-offline-update.service

Of course, you're now going to need to get updates manually some other way



Chris Murphy