Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:43:47PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: I tried kill -9 and got nowhere, but the 'ps aux | grep -i yum' command produced a fair list of processes. I killed them all, but 20774 was still running. Finally I used 'sudo kill -KILL 20774.' It executed without error and

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-31 Thread MJang
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 21:39 -0700, Jason LaPier wrote: kill -9 20774 http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html snip Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 20774. On rare occasion, a kill -9 doesn't work. You should be able to delete the /var/run/yum.pid

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Beattie
Ctrl-Z does not kill a process, it stops it. The process is still active, all it's files and sockets are still open, it still holds any locks it has taken. A process that has been stopped can be resumed in foreground or in background. On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 21:32 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Beattie
The issue is that kill -9 kills the process with extreme prejudice, in this case that means immediately. The process does not have time to clean up. Always try just kill first, this sends a TERM signal which can be caught and a sophisticated program(such as most programs that use locks) can

[PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed instructions. Except that the instructions are for Ubuntu so they are full of apt-get commands, but generally all I have to do is replace apt-get with yum. There

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
sudo kill -9 20774 The dash 9 causes a sure kill. Next time kill interactive processes with control c. Control z suspends the process, and returns control to the command line. Hope this helps -- Patrick Timlick On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread Jason LaPier
kill -9 20774 http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed instructions.

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread wes
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed instructions. Except that the instructions are for Ubuntu so they are full of

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread Dale Snell
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:32:56 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed instructions. Except that the instructions are for Ubuntu so they are full of

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:58:13 -0700 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: sudo yum install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-opengl-dev libqtwebkit-dev If you're using yum, I assume *cough*cough* that you're using a Red Hat/Fedora based system of some sort. In that case, the development packages are labeled