[Forum] Unexpected Text Error

[B4.]

Im getting this error when doing a fresh install of 4.2.0 on a new Centos VPS

Unexpected Text:
make<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?><upgrade> <message replace="0">Connection successful</message> <status>Status: Installing, Step 2 of 7</status> <longversion>install</longversion> <version>install</version> <nextstep>2</nextstep> <upgradenotice><=!=[=C=D=A=T=A=[<strong>Installing</strong>]=]=></upgradenotice></upgrade>

what php ive got installed:
[root@www ~]# rpm -qa |grep php
php53-cli-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-pdo-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-devel-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-common-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-mysql-5.3.3-13.el5_8
php53-mbstring-5.3.3-13.el5_8

MYSQL is installed and running, have created a database and set user and password as same as config.php.
MYSQL:
mysql.x86_64 5.0.95-1.el5_7.1
mysql-server.x86_64 5.0.95-1.el5_7.1

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| forums_database |
| mysql |
+--------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


Has any1 seen this before or know what step 2 does as to find whats throwing the error on so I can check further?

Thanks

[borbole]

Is that all the error message says or is there more to it?

[B4.]

Thats all it had, and the install was aborted.

I ended up using 4.1 install and it all worked,
Had even done a full OS install and the same issue came up.
So I dont know if its a server issue or just the patch?
Not real game to try the 4.2 update again yet,
Once I got the forums installed I did upgrade and got a white screen, so rolled back to a backup copy of forum
Just want to get things stable 1st then might try upgrade again.