Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 153 M RSS (266 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Jul 12 00:03:05 2012 - 06:19 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 4018
解决方法：
rm -rf /var/run/yum.pid 来强行解除锁定，然后yum就可以运行了
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