On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 04:34 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
The real killer is, however, that the yum-udatesd service is enabled
by default
and it locks out the command line use of yum and all the yum-dependent apps like
Pirut, KYum and YumEx.
It's intentionally enabled by default (otherwise, the desktop side of
things hardly works :), but it shouldn't be locking everything out
except during the time period that it's actually checking for available
updates.
Can you strace the yum-updatesd process to see what it's doing?
Jeremy