Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit
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I'm trying to install wireshark on Fedora(latest version with gnome3) and I keep getting the error. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... I keep killing the offending process after finding it's pid using , but the same process spawns again with a different pid. Ho…
Error Output
root 1605 0.0 3.4 54424 26228 ? SN 10:51 0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py get-updates none
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Fix for: Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit
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That is PackageKit attempting to update the yum database so that it can show you a desktop icon when there are updates to apply. It should only run for short periods - if it is failing to complete then it suggests there is some sort of problem with …
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