[Yum] mysqld breaks yum, help?

[Michael A. Peters]

Dac Chartrand wrote:

> 
> More importantly, if I do `/etc/init.d/mysqld stop`, yum works fine. 
> 
> So it's only failing when mysqld is turned on. (?!)
> 
> Can someone offer some insight here? Thank you for your time. 
> 
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release 
> CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

That is weird.
yum works just fine for me on CentOS 5.2 w/ MySQL

Who's MySQL are you running? Did your php updates possibly replace the 
stock MySQL or alter /etc/my.cnf ?

I really don't have a clue what the issue might be, just noting that on 
both i386 and x86_64 - stock yum works for me with stock MySQL running.