Windows 7 Image Backup to Network Location
The deadline Microsoft has given for its free upgrade of Windows 7 and 8
to Windows 10 is 5:59 AM EDT Saturday July 30, 2016. When I checked with the
owner of a couple of Windows 7 systems on whether she wished me to upload
the systems prior to the deadline, she said "Yes." I wanted to have
current backups for the systems, so I backed them up using the built-in
backup program Microsoft provides with the Windows 7 operating system - see
Windows 7 Image Backup to Network Location
on the steps to start and configure that software. I found that there
was only a few megabytes of disk space still available on the USB-attached
backup device for one of the systems and I wanted to retain the earlier backups
on that device, so I decided to backup the system over the network, instead.
That backup was much slower than I would have liked it to have been over the
100 Mbs LAN. The steps to perform a Windows 7 backup to a network location
are listed
here.
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Another app is currently holding the yum lock
After resolving a problem with network connectivity on a
CentOS 7 Linux
server, I attempted to install a package using
yum, but received the message "Another app is currently
holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit..."
# yum install rdesktop
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 16020.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:14 ago
State : Running, pid: 16020
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:16 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 16020
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:18 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 16020
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:20 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 16020
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:22 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 16020
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: PackageKit
Memory : 46 M RSS (1.4 GB VSZ)
Started: Fri Jul 29 12:08:28 2016 - 01:24 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 16020
^C
Exiting on user cancel.
#I checked the process and saw the following information:
# ps aux | grep yum
root 16020 28.4 2.3 1455028 79512 ? SN 12:08 1:16 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py refresh-cache yes
root 16354 0.0 0.0 112652 952 pts/0 S+ 12:12 0:00 grep --color=auto yum
#
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