Dac Chartrand wrote:
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
Are you running on a VPS? Do you have the yum-fastestmirror plugin enabled? If so: mysql *and* yum (with fastestmirror) take up quite a few threads on your system. Many vpses limit the number of threads which can be run in a vps instance.
Try turning off yum-fastestmirror and look if yum works again.
Cheers,
Ralph