problems with yum...

[nickschurch]

Hi All,

I'm having some problems with yum. Several times an evening (every hour or two), while I'm in the middle of using my HDA, something runs yum as root and my server chugs for about 30s. I have no idea what process/program i running yum, but top clearly shows that it is the problem.

Now, chugging for 30s doesn't sound too bad, but when it happens in the middle of watching a film, or listening to music from the HDA it is very irritating.

At first I thought it might be being scheduled to run, but there was no yum-updatesd installed. So then I thought it might be a single process that is always running in the background, but if I kill it, it comes back. S then I thought "maybe scheduling it will solve the problem" but installing yum-updatesd doesn't seem that affected it.

So, I'm at a bit of a loss. How can I stop whatever is running yum, from running it? I do I find out whats running it? Is it related to Amahi, or is it a broader Fedora 14 problem?

I've checked /var/logs/yum.log but because it isn't actually installing anything (its just querying the repos I think) it doesn't write anything to the logfile, so that is no help either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is driving me nuts.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

It could be the hda-update that is running. I believe it's run hourly, so that could be the culprit. This is done to ensure you get the latest platform updates when they are released.

Check /etc/cron.hourly directory for the file.

[nickschurch]

Thanks, I've moved that to cron.weekly and we'll see if that fixes the problem.

[bigfoot65]

Please let us know.