Updater constantly running, machine lags

[anex]

Hi, I'm new to Fedora and new to linux.

My machine is running slow (AMD64 1gig ram, 200gig sata drive), and I am trying to diagnose the problem. I tried to update with yum and it says
"Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 7367.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit..."

I found the yum.pid file and renamed it but it was a temp fix. The gui package updater is not running, as far as I can tell but I'm not sure how to check the background apps.

Has anyone come across this and is there a simple fix?

Alternately, could a total machine slowdown be caused by faulty video drivers?

Thanks for the help

[JN4OldSchool]

su
system-config-services

stop yum-updatesd and also uncheck it. save.

just make sure you do a yum update every two to three days.

What kind of video card/chip do you have? If nvidia or ati you will want to get the proper third party driver from the Livna repo.

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[Evil_Bert]

Whilst what JN4 suggest will work, have you tried rebooting and running 'yum update' immediately after logging in?

Yum-updatesd running shouldn't interfere with yum update, unless you started the graphical package updater (Pup) and it is either still running, crashed or uncleanly killed (which could leave the .pid file and maybe lock file).

You may have authorised yum-updatesd to start yum automatically through settings in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf:
# automatically install updates
do_update = no
# automatically download updates
do_download = no
# automatically download deps of updates
do_download_deps = no
....if the above options are set to 'yes'.

Or perhaps there's a cron job that is running yum (although that is not in any default install that I know of).