Known Issues for Sybase Control Center

An operating system issue can prevent SCC from starting in some versions of Linux. Errors report that the SQL Anywhere scc_repository database cannot be started.

Related SQL Anywhere CRs: 734192, 728597.

The OS issue is a possible transparent huge page bug in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and other Linux distributions with kernel versions greater than 2.6.38. The Red Hat tracking number is 891857.

Workaround: If SCC fails to start on a host running Linux, particularly RHEL 6 or later, and you see errors about the scc_repository database, set the environment variable SA_DISABLE_DIRECTIO to 1 and start SCC again.