[BlueOnyx:14345] Re: Another error after yum update

[wcstaff at webcoast.com]

> > Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sa//sa01
> > File created using sar/sadc from sysstat version 9.0.4
> > Current sysstat version can no longer read the format of this file
> > (0x2170)
> > Format of this file had been changed in sysstat-9.0.4-20.el6
> > due to incompatibility of the certain data types with the current
> > kernel.
> > For more information, please refer to the description of the "--
> > legacy"
> > option in the sar(1) manual page.
> >
> > Thanks
> > RC
> 
> Richard,
> 
> I saw this a while ago after an update. Not sure which package drove this
> issue, but the solution was to delete the offending file in the message.
It
> gets recreated as automatically. If you want to be very careful, you might
> just move/rename the file to be certain.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>            -Stephanie
> 
To assure others that are not pulling yum updates from the beta repository,
I performed a yum update on 2 Scientific Linux boxes. I started with a "yum
clean all", then yum update. Both updated successfully.