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. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum