[CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-03 Thread Dac Chartrand
Greetings. After doing: $ yum install mysql-server $ /etc/init.d/mysqld start Yum is broken. Example: $ yum list php Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * utterramblings: www.jasonlitka.com * base: mirror.nuvio.com Traceback (m

Re: [CentOS] Re: mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-04 Thread Dac Chartrand
Hi all. Thanks for reading and replying. Isn't there php in the CentOS plus repo? What repo is that you messed about with? ATRPMS or Livna? These don't have the latest versions of PHP5, the repo I am using is "Jason's Utter Ramblings Repo" @ www.jasonlitka.com and the only files I pulled

Re: [CentOS] Re: mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-04 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 4-Oct-08, at 7:06 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:02:18PM -0400, Dac Chartrand wrote: * utterramblings: www.jasonlitka.com Do you have this added to your yum repo list? What happens if you remove it? Yes, it's in /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo

Re: [CentOS] Re: mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-04 Thread Dac Chartrand
PS: z00dax in irc made a good point, that I should mention that this is a VPS and i have root access. No one else is on this machine. Furthermore, disabling the fastestmirror plugin solves the problem for now. (thanks z00dax) If anything else weird happens i'll write back. Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-05 Thread Dac Chartrand
He installed some software that affects threading and it's likely other things (that he didn't notice yet) are also affected. It's still weird, though. If you do not overwrite any base files you won't hit this problem. Woah. Well, here's where I disagree What's non standard in my install

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-05 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 5-Oct-08, at 10:10 PM, nate wrote: Perhaps you should use a distribution that includes all of the packages you need rather than trying to bolt a bunch of 3rd party stuff on to CentOS. Only a the PHP packages came from a 3rd party, Everything else as far as I know comes from CentOS-Base.r

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-05 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 5-Oct-08, at 10:10 PM, nate wrote: Are there any packages installed that weren't part of the *base* CentOS? PS: I can't answer this question. I inherited a CentOS 5.2 VPS and moved forward from there. I wrote support and they looked into it. None of their other installs exhibit the s

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
> > > I don't recall accusing you of that, you mention above you > inherited that system, it's possible that whoever had it before > you screwed it up before you got it. Sorry, the statement of feeling 'accused' falls under reply-to-all. I didn't mean that you accused me. I just felt that thread

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Apart from that, as you have "inherited" a VPS. What is that? Do you rent > it from a hosting provider? If so, and keeping in mind that there's > obviously a problem with opening more threads (fastestmirror will open > simu

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Try turning off yum-fastestmirror and look if yum works again. Yes. This solves the immediate problem. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 1:52 AM, John wrote: Could please you possibly do a list of all the installed RPMs on the system in question. Just for cause do a grep to list any packages like "rf" = rpmforge, "jason or "litka" "centos" There no longer any rpm packages with "jason" or "litka", there are a

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 9:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dac Chartrand wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:48:36 -0400: I didn't give any answer about threads. I don't know what this means, but I hope you are now aware that the issue stems from a limit on threads/processes? Haha, woops, typ

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 9:34 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: As said: Your problem isn't with non-standard repositories, your problem lies in the way your hoster handles the VPS by limiting the number of threads on the guests. Ok, understood. Thank you for the help and clarification. --- http://www.tr