Django unable to open sqlite on SOME queries only?

Question

I have had no troubles locally, but pushing a new project to an existing machine (one running plenty of other django apps without trouble) gave this:

OperationalError: unable to open database file

What is more perplexing is:

• The sqlite file is read-write for all
• This error only happens on some queries! Other's are fine.
• In a fresh db after running syncdb, my views work, but /admin/ triggers this.
• If I loaddata for some of my apps from data dumped from my local machine, some of the apps trigger this in my views, and others do not.
• I can find no correlation between any of the things that seem to trigger this.

Why would it fail to open the database, aside from permissions?

Answer 1

Write access on the directory. I thought i checked that first :-/