yumBackend.py

[Phil Dobbin]

On 23/01/14 18:49, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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

Hi, Chris.

Thanks for that. I actually settled it in the end by disabling it via 
DConf Editor.

I take it running '# yum update' will still work?

Cheers,

   Phil...

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