解决linux 出现如下报错：Another app is currently holding the yum lock;

[root@localhost network-scripts]# yum install vim

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2503.

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:00 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:02 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:04 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:06 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:08 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:10 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

  The other application is: yum

    Memory :  19 M RSS (306 MB VSZ)

    Started: Thu Oct 29 23:03:02 2015 - 04:12 ago

    State  : Traced/Stopped, pid: 2503

解决办法：

rm -rf /var/run/yum.pid 来强行解除锁定，然后就可以正常使用你的yum了

本文转自 lqbyz 51CTO博客，原文链接:http://blog.51cto.com/liqingbiao/1707723