file permissions should be the issue because those files are not usual ones.
On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 3:45:09 PM UTC+1, peter wrote: > > I am restating my problem with all that I now know. > > >> I have a version of sqlite3 that is 3.7... >> >> I have been having problems with the database being locked. >> >> So I tried >> db.executesql("PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;") >> >> (just once) >> >> I then cannot access the application without getting a >> >> OperationalError: unable to open database file >> >> > If I look in the databases folder, I see that there are two file > storage.sqlite-wal and > storage.sqlite-shm > > The first of these has 0 bytes as its size. > Both of them have the 'wrong' permissions in that they do not include > group write permissions. > If I change the permissions of the two files, then reload the page, it > works. > However I will soon again get the 'unable to open database error', and the > persmissions will need resetting. > > Does anyone have any idea why I am getting these permission issues with > the WAL file? > > I set up a very simple application and WAL worked okay on that, so WAL is > possible on my system. > > If I turn WAL off and go back to DELETE everything works fine, but I am at > risk of database locking. so I would prefer to be able to use Write Ahead > Logging. > > Thanks for any help > Peter > > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.