Tryin to get some light shed on this issue

Running CentOS

I upgraded Apache using easyapache to 2.2

All was well

I then used WHM to update Mysql to 5.5

This succeeded but now Apache will not start.

The error log was reporting things like

[Sun Apr 15 00:44:57 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 15 02:27:30 2012] [alert] Child 4063 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting!

So I tried to recompile using easyapache again, but easyapache just hangs

I tried with base php settings - and it always gets stuck on "bf804000-bf819000 rw-p 7ffffffe9000 00:00 0 [stack]"

At this point in cpanel the status says "create srm.conf and access.conf for mod_frontpage"

I have tried things like

rpm --rebuilddb 
yum clean all 
yum update 

with no luck.

I'm kind of running out of ideas, and wondering if anyone could point me to the right direction.