Centos yum library update

Centos yum library update

When upgrading the system on CentOS VPS today, yum reports the following error:
# Yum update

Loaded plugins: fastestmirrorLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfileTraceback (most recent call last):  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main    errcode = main(args)  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 339, in doCommands    self._getTs(needTsRemove)  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 101, in _getTs    self._getTsInfo(remove_only)  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 112, in _getTsInfo    pkgSack = self.pkgSack  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 591, in 
 
      pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 434, in _getSacks    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 223, in populateSack    self.doSetup()  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 71, in doSetup    self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup')  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 176, in run    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 181, in postreposetup_hook    all_urls = FastestMirror(all_urls).get_mirrorlist()  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 333, in get_mirrorlist    self._poll_mirrors()  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 376, in _poll_mirrors    pollThread.start()  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 416, in start    _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())thread.error: can't start new thread
 

An error occurred when yum started the fastestmirror plug-in, which is a bug (http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/70) of yum ). If mysqld is stopped, yum works normally. The temporary solution is to disable the fastestmirror plug-in during yum update.

yum --disableplugin=fastestmirror update