SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENTINFOTier 1 — Safe⚠️ MEDIUM confidenceI/O error deleting non-existent file
Category: I/O ErrorVersions: 3.8.7+
🔴 Production Risk Error
None — informational in most cases.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT (5898) is a sub-code of SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE returned when SQLite tries to delete a journal or WAL file that no longer exists. This is generally harmless.
Why it happens
- 1Another process already deleted the journal file.
- 2Journal file was never created (empty transaction).
How to reproduce
Post-commit journal cleanup when the journal file is already gone.
trigger — this will ERROR
# Journal file already deleted by another process or OS
# → SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT (benign)No visible error in most drivers; logged at IOERR level.
Fix 1
Why this works
No fix needed — this is typically benign. The journal is already cleaned up.
Sources
📚 Official docs: https://www.sqlite.org/rescode.html#ioerr_delete_noent
🔧 Source ref: sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_DELETE_NOENT = 5898
Confidence assessment
⚠️ MEDIUM confidence
Stable.
See also
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