hi when i tried to open my software management(repositories) in YaST i saw a pop up window it says PackageKit is still running(probably busy)Ask PackageKit to quite again.i can’t quit that>:(.i tried to quit it via system activity.Because of this i can’t open software management(repositories).it is also not working.how to quit PackageKit?
Try this:
killall PackageKit
If that does not work:
killall -9 PackageKit
This behaviour is the reason why I deactivated that updater-thingy.
Edit: Check if the process is actually called “PackageKit”, I do not know that. Plus run these commands as root.
see this
linux-vd9i:/home/vicky # killall PackageKit
PackageKit: no process found
linux-vd9i:/home/vicky # killall -9 PackageKit
PackageKit: no process found
it is not working.can you tell me how to deactivate the update?
Right click the updater applet > configure > do not start at boot
reboot
Problem solved guys Thank you.
Found this post while searching for same error which I just got resolved by gropiuskalle 's method.
In my case the process name was packagekitd in OpenSuSe 12.1 version.
@ info to newbies who coming across this problem >> use top command to see the process name in the list. 
sco1984 wrote:
>
> Found this post while searching for same error which I just got
> resolved by gropiuskalle 's method.
>
> In my case the process name was packagekitd in OpenSuSe 12.1
> version. @ info to newbies who coming across this problem >> use top
> command to see the process name in the list.
>
>
Or use pgrep.
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Tumbleweed/Gnome here.
Many many times when I rudo “sudo zypper dup” it tells me PackageKit is still running and asking me to tell it to quit, which I answer yes… but the same message and question comes up. So it doesn’t quit and no update possible. I then ran “top” but there’s no PackageKit process. I’m trying now to restart the system…
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