SQLITE_IOERR_ACCESS
SQLiteERRORNotableI/O Errorofficial confidence
I/O error checking file existence/access
Production Risk
Medium — database open may fail.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_ACCESS (3338) is returned when the VFS xAccess method fails while checking whether a database-related file (journal, WAL, etc.) exists or is accessible.
Why it happens
- 1OS error on stat() or access() syscall for journal/WAL file.
- 2Filesystem error checking file metadata.
How to reproduce
Database open or lock-check operations that probe for sidecar file existence.
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# stat() failure on -journal or -wal file triggers this
expected output
sqlite3.OperationalError: disk I/O error
Fix 1
Fix 2
Sources
Official documentation ↗
sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_ACCESS = 3338
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