Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/05/2012 04:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: "killall yum" is your friend If you do, yum may refuse to run. If that happens, do this as root: rm /var/run/yum.pid Because that will get rid of yum's lock file. Yes, it should go away when you kill yum, but I've had it fail. -- users mailing

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-10 Thread Reindl Harald
"killall yum" is your friend Am 05.09.2012 12:55, schrieb Yashar Pezeshki: > CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the process id > of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" > will automatically replace the process id in front of the kill command. And > if anything went wrong with your

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:22:52PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > But isn't that the same as Ctrl+c? > > No. Ctrl+c sends a SIGINT. > Ah, thanks. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > But isn't that the same as Ctrl+c? No. Ctrl+c sends a SIGINT. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/M

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:43:12PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread. > > You could corrupt your package database. > > If you use plain "kill", a SIGTERM is sent to the process. If you send > a

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread. > You could corrupt your package database. If you use plain "kill", a SIGTERM is sent to the process. If you send a SIGHUP, there will be no data loss ("kill -HUP pid"). -- users mailing li

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/09/12 08:00, Suvayu Ali responds: Hi Yashar, A request: please do not top post; it makes it difficult to follow the conversation and messes up the archives. Also please take the time to read through the mailing list guidelines, this is mentioned there. Now to get on topic, On Wed, Sep 0

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Yashar Pezeshki
Thanks! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Yashar, A request: please do not top post; it makes it difficult to follow the conversation and messes up the archives. Also please take the time to read through the mailing list guidelines, this is mentioned there. Now to get on topic, On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:25:03PM +0430, Yashar Pezesh

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Elliott Chapin
I ran into this from the package manager, which indicated failure. "details" showed the zombie pid; killing it worked. On 09/05/2012 06:55 AM, Yashar Pezeshki wrote: > CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the > process id of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" will automatically repl

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Yashar Pezeshki
CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the process id of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" will automatically replace the process id in front of the kill command. And if anything went wrong with your yum database, you can simply run "yum clean all" to clean your database, and any othe

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 05/09/12 05:36, Suvayu Ali responds: On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:08:47AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying to find another update.

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Tim
Bob Goodwin: > How can I stop the yum update? None of the usual stuff like CTRL+c > works. This is F-17/64 bit. Did you try more than once? The first ctrl+c interrupts the current process, without doing a full abort. e.g. Cancels downloading a package from the current repo mirror, and retries ge

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:08:47AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early >morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying >to find another update. I can live with that and just try aga

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Yashar Pezeshki
P.S. The command should be executed as root. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Yashar Pezeshki wrote: > I guess this will work: > > kill `pidof yum` > > > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Yashar Pezeshki
I guess this will work: kill `pidof yum` -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://as

how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying to find another update. I can live with that and just try again later but there is no graceful way to tell yum to stop! I logged into a new termi