If you have a Django 1.0 deployment configured to use sqlite3, and are struggling to understand sporadic eruptions of what are clearly exceptions thrown by closing a database cursor with uncommitted work; either manage.py commands on the shell, or page requests to the application generate stack traces centered around messages like ' Unable to close due to unfinalised statements ' then it might be a file permissions problem.

In my case, neither my developer shell account, nor the user id of the running apache httpd processes had write permissions to the directory with the sqlite3 database file. Not immediately apparent from the wording used in the error messages.

posted by cms on 2008-10-03 10:04:09