Saturday, October 21, 2017

Stop auto yum package update in RHEL7/CentOS 7

[root@localhost ~]# yum update -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 13905.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: PackageKit
    Memory :  26 M RSS (429 MB VSZ)
    Started: Sat Oct 21 06:42:11 2017 - 00:44 ago
    State  : Sleeping, pid: 13905
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
  The other application is: PackageKit
    Memory :  26 M RSS (429 MB VSZ)
    Started: Sat Oct 21 06:42:11 2017 - 00:46 ago
     State  : Sleeping, pid: 13905


[root@localhost ~]# ps -ef|grep 14172
root     14172 11949 19 06:44 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py update-packages only-trusted;only-download systemd-sysv;219-42.el7_4.4;x86_64;updates&seabios-<…..>
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl -l|grep package
packagekit.service                                                                       loaded active running   PackageKit Daemon

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl disable packagekit.service
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl stop packagekit.service


[root@localhost ~]# ps -ef|grep 14172
root     14282 13993  0 06:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto 14172