id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
6338	Better error message on sqlite3 failure	simeon	simeon	"I recently updgraded my OS and restored my django projects from backup. The django shell worked but when I ran {{{manage.py dbshell}}} 
I got a exception ending in
{{{
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py"", line 48, in <lambda>
    runshell = lambda: _import_database_module(_import_path, ""client"").runshell()
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/client.py"", line 6, in runshell
    os.execvp('sqlite3', args)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py"", line 354, in execvp
    _execvpe(file, args)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py"", line 392, in _execvpe
    func(fullname, *argrest)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
}}}

The astute pythoner notes the 3rd line up tries to execute a call to sqlite3 and the actual error message ""No such file or directory"" is just to indicate that we couldn't execute the sqlite3 binary.  It took me a minute to realise that I hadn't yet installed sqlite3 and I was on my way. Should we catch the exception and provide a more explicit error message? See patch - but I don't mind if this is a wontfix.
"	New feature	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal	duplicate			Accepted	1	0	0	1	1	0