sqlite jdbc error SQLITE_IOERR_LOCK - sqlite

Question

I have a runnable jar for a java8 program which uses sqlite-jdbc 3.14.2. It works fine on windows 10 and ubuntu. i.e. i can query stuff on these platforms on all the tables. However, when i run it on FreeBSD 10.3-releasep4, it gives me the following error when i run queries on all the tables.
[SQLITE_IOERR_LOCK] I/O error in the advisory file locking logic (disk I/O error) on FreeBSD 10.3-release
Please advise a workaround or solution.
Same issue exists with 3.16.1

Answer 1

So I finally found out what was wrong. It was an NFS mounted volume that was causing the problem. With DB file on local file system, it works like a charm.

Answer 2

If anyone is coming to this question at later time, this error can be reproduced by first creating or opening a DB with WAL journalling mode, writing something, then closing the DB and trying to open it again in read-only mode with journalling off. This unit test will reproduce the error:
#Test
public void mixJournalingModesFailureTest()
{
File tempDb = File.createTempFile("tempdbtest", ".db");
tempDb.deleteOnExit();
// Open a temp DB in RW mode with WAL journalling
String url = "jdbc:sqlite:" + tempDb.getAbsolutePath();
SQLiteConfig config = new SQLiteConfig();
// Ser read-write with WAL journalling
config.setJournalMode( SQLiteConfig.JournalMode.WAL );
config.setReadOnly( false );
Properties props = config.toProperties();
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( url, props );
// Write something
try ( Statement statement = conn.createStatement() )
{
statement.execute( "CREATE TABLE test (words text)" );
}
// Close the DB
conn.close();
// Open the DB again but with journalling off and in read-only mode
config.setJournalMode( SQLiteConfig.JournalMode.OFF );
config.setReadOnly( true );
props = config.toProperties();
try
{
// This will throw the SQLITE_IOERR_LOCK advisory lock exception
DriverManager.getConnection( url, props );
fail( "Should throw advisory lock exception" );
}
catch ( SQLException ignore ) {}
}