RobertH wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:39:26 -0700: > Why does disabling something that the centos website says is "highly > recommended" (multiple times) fix this issue? Because he has a non-standard setup. In case you didn't recognize: stopping mysqld also fixes his problem! He installed some software that affects threading and it's likely other things (that he didn't notice yet) are also affected. It's still weird, though. If you do not overwrite any base files you won't hit this problem. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com