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Removing yum-updatesd

by jpmahowald — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:46 AM
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If you get the error "Another application is running which is accessing software information" but you are not updating your packages, the problem is yum-updatesd. yum-updatesd is supposed to check regularly if you have any updates. Unfortunately it locks all package programs like yum and pup. To fix this remove yum-updatesd

Applicable to Fedora Versions

  • Fedora Core 6

Doing the work


  1. Stop the yum-updatesd daemon: 
    su -c 'service yum-updatesd stop'

  2. Remove the yum-updatesd package:
    3. su -c 'yum remove yum-updatesd'
  3. You may now update using pup and install software via pirut. However because you will not be notified when updates are available, be sure to run yum update regularly:
    4. su -c 'yum update'

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Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

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