```
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 128 M RSS (439 MB VSZ)
Started: Fri Aug 28 08:08:31 2015 - 48:25 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 3462
```
解决方法：
```
rm -f /var/run/yum.pid
```
然后重新执行yum就可以了
永久禁止该错误
```
[root@oracle pluginconf.d]# cd /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/
[root@oracle pluginconf.d]# ls
product-id.conf refresh-packagekit.conf rhnplugin.conf security.conf subscription-manager.conf
[root@oracle pluginconf.d]# vim refresh-packagekit.conf
[main]
enabled=0 --将原来的1改成0即可
```
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