yum was working fine then it just started giving me errors. the last successful install was.
yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server
# yum update
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 289, in doCommands
self._getTs()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 85, in _getTs
self._getTsInfo()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 91, in _getTsInfo
self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/init.py", line 537, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/init.py", line 392, in _getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 214, in populateSack
self.doSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 66, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 169, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 90, in postreposetup_hook
repomirrors[str(repo)] = FastestMirror?(repo.urls).get_mirrorlist()
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 142, in get_mirrorlist
self._poll_mirrors()
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 155, in _poll_mirrors
pollThread.start()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 416, in start
_start_new_thread(self.bootstrap, ())
