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