[Yum] Problem running yum on CentOS Server

[Nate B.]

Hi everyone,
I am having an issue on my CentOS server.  I am trying to run a simple yum
update command to get the latest software for the CentOS server, but I keep
having problems with it because it keeps getting killed for no reason.
Here is what I get:
%yum update

Unable to find pid
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3WS - Addons
CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/addons
Getting header.info from server
failover: baseURL = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/addons/i386/
failover: path = headers/header.info
headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/addons/header.info
Server: CentOS-3WS - Extras
CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/extras
Getting header.info from server
failover: baseURL = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/centosplus/i386/
failover: path = headers/header.info
headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/extras/header.info
Server: CentOS-3WS - Updates
CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/update
Getting header.info from server
failover: baseURL = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/updates/i386/
failover: path = headers/header.info
headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/update/header.info
dupe entry in rpmdb gpg-pubkey None
Finding updated packages
putting php-ncurses in simple update list
putting php-mysql in simple update list
putting libtool-libs in simple update list
putting openssl in complex update list
putting php-mbstring in simple update list
putting gd in simple update list
putting httpd-devel in simple update list
putting perl in simple update list
putting nss_ldap in simple update list
putting wget in simple update list
putting php-bcmath in simple update list
putting curl in simple update list
putting openldap in simple update list
putting httpd in simple update list
putting util-linux in simple update list
putting php-pear in simple update list
putting tar in simple update list
putting libpng in simple update list
putting bzip2-libs in simple update list
putting shadow-utils in simple update list
putting pam in simple update list
putting php-xmlrpc in simple update list
putting php in simple update list
putting bzip2 in simple update list
putting yum in simple update list
putting mod_ssl in simple update list
Best version for openssl is 0:0.9.7a-43.4
Best version for openssl is 0:0.9.7a-33.17
Best ver+arch avail for openssl is i686
Best ver+arch installed for openssl is i386
Exact match in complex for openssl - i386
Downloading needed headers
Killed

and a copy of my yum.conf file:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=5
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise
kernel-debug kernel-unsupported k
ernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem-unsupported
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

#[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/os/i386/
#baseurl=
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/caoslinux/centos-3/build6/i386/RedHat/RPMS
gpgcheck=1

#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/updates/i386/
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/addons/$basearch/
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/addons/i386/
gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/extras/i386/
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
#[centosplus]
#name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.2/centosplus/i386/
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
#gpgcheck=1


I've searched all over the web for several hours and cannot find a solution
to this problem.  Please help me with this problem as I do not know how to
fix it.
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