[Yum] mysqld breaks yum, help?

[James Antill]

Dac Chartrand <dac.chartrand at gmail.com> writes:

> 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 (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> [..snip..]
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 416, in start
>     _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
> thread.error: can't start new thread

 The only thing I know which uses threads is yum-fastestmirror ... so
you could try disabling that. However I'd look at your MySQL
config. to see if it's starting an excessive number of threads or
something else that's weird, as I've not heard of this problem (and I
don't see how MySQL could directly affect yum).

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org