（转）yum提示Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

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Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

解决：

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方法一、

1）查询进程

# ps aux|grep yum
root        0.0  0.0     pts/    S+   :   : grep yum
root       0.0  0.0            ?        Z    Sep19   : [yumBackend.py] <defunct>

2）删除进程

# kill -s  进程id

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方法二、

可以通过强制关掉yum进程：

#rm -f /var/run/yum.pid