Yum install fails with "Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit..."

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Issue

  • Yum install fails with the below error:

    # yum -y install <package> 
    Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, security, subscription-manager
    Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 1879.
    Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
      The other application is: yum
    Memory :  84 M RSS (479 MB VSZ)
    Started: Sat Aug 27 16:13:54 2016 - 04:17 ago
    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 1879
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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