我在谷歌Chrome浏览器中查看存储的密码时遇到了这个错误。

# ~/.config/google-chrome/Default
$ sqlite3 Login\ Data
SQLite version 3.35.5 2021-04-19 18:32:05
sqlite> .tables
Error: database is locked

如果你不是特别关心父进程，或者你不想停止当前正在使用数据库的chrome进程，只需将文件复制到其他地方。

$ cp Login\ Data ~/tmp/ld.sql
$ sqlite3 ~/tmp/ld.sql .tables
field_info              meta   sync_model_metadata   
insecure_credentials    stats                 
logins                  sync_entities_metadata

这样做将允许您读取数据库的内容，而不打扰或停止主chrome进程。

我刚刚遇到了类似的情况——我的web应用程序能够从数据库中读取数据，但不能执行任何插入或更新。重启Apache至少暂时解决了这个问题。

不过，如果能找到根本原因就好了。

在选择重新启动选项之前，有必要看看能否找到sqlite数据库的用户。

在Linux上，可以使用fuser:

$ fuser database.db

$ fuser database.db-journal

在我的案例中，我得到了如下的回应:

philip    3556  4700  0 10:24 pts/3    00:00:01 /usr/bin/python manage.py shell

这表明我有另一个使用数据库的pid 3556 (manage.py)的Python程序。

我导致我的sqlite数据库在写入过程中崩溃一个应用程序而被锁定。以下是我如何修复它:

echo ".dump" | sqlite old.db | sqlite new.db

摘自:http://random.kakaopor.hu/how-to-repair-an-sqlite-database

我添加了“池=true”连接字符串，它工作。

有些函数，比如INDEX'ing，可能会花费很长时间——而且在运行时它会锁定整个数据库。在这种情况下，它甚至可能不使用日志文件!

因此，最好/唯一的方法来检查您的数据库是否被锁定，因为一个进程正在积极地写入它(因此你应该让它独自呆着，直到它完成它的操作)是md5(或md5sum在某些系统)文件两次。 如果你得到一个不同的校验和，数据库正在被写入，你真的真的真的不想杀死这个进程，因为如果你这样做，你很容易得到一个损坏的表/数据库。

我要重申一下，因为这很重要——解决方案不是找到锁程序并杀死它——而是找出数据库是否有一个很好的写锁，然后从那里开始。有时候正确的解决方法就是喝杯咖啡休息一下。

The only way to create this locked-but-not-being-written-to situation is if your program runs BEGIN EXCLUSIVE, because it wanted to do some table alterations or something, then for whatever reason never sends an END afterwards, and the process never terminates. All three conditions being met is highly unlikely in any properly-written code, and as such 99 times out of 100 when someone wants to kill -9 their locking process, the locking process is actually locking your database for a good reason. Programmers don't typically add the BEGIN EXCLUSIVE condition unless they really need to, because it prevents concurrency and increases user complaints. SQLite itself only adds it when it really needs to (like when indexing).

Finally, the 'locked' status does not exist INSIDE the file as several answers have stated - it resides in the Operating System's kernel. The process which ran BEGIN EXCLUSIVE has requested from the OS a lock be placed on the file. Even if your exclusive process has crashed, your OS will be able to figure out if it should maintain the file lock or not!! It is not possible to end up with a database which is locked but no process is actively locking it!! When it comes to seeing which process is locking the file, it's typically better to use lsof rather than fuser (this is a good demonstration of why: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/94316/fuser-vs-lsof-to-check-files-in-use). Alternatively if you have DTrace (OSX) you can use iosnoop on the file.