Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:26:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Ken Michael <mynetlink (at mark) yahoo.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07156] Re: Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <20060921162655.47726.qmail (at mark) web82301.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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MJR <mjr (at mark) misswebhost.com> wrote: Hi,

I'm getting the same thing on a test server 
In the tmp files I found 
   13 -rw-r-----   1 root root 1642 Sep 19 15:03 yum.update
   19 -rw-r-----   1 root root    0 Sep 19 15:03 yum.updating

The contents of yum.update is:
Updating:
 base-bluequartz-capstone  noarch     5100R-1.20060918BQ74.centos4
BlueQuartz         10 k
 base-bluequartz-glue    noarch     5100R-1.20060918BQ74.centos4  BlueQuartz
43 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================
=
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       2 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 53 k
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
^M  Updating  : base-bluequartz-glue         ######################### [1/4]

Then it goes blank.... 

Regards,
Mitch

  I had a similar problem yesterday. The yum updates were hung and I had 2 zombie prepossess, while it was in the waiting/zombie mode I couldn$BCU(B add vsites, or save changes in the GUI. After a few attempts to restart admserv and kill the zombie prepossess I finally tried a reboot.
  This didn$BCU(B go well ether; the box would not boot using the $BEM(Bast known good” (whatever its called) top boot profile.



	
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