Failed to open datastore error

[Greg-I-Anderson]

Anyone know why I am getting the following error when running scans? -
Error: Failed to open datastore at np.my_repo

Caused by:
0: Failed to open database at np.my_repo/datastore.db
1: database is locked
2: Error code 5: The database file is locked

I get the same error when using the pre-built binary or Docker.

The specific Docker command I was using was -
docker run -v "$PWD":/scan ghcr.io/praetorian-inc/noseyparker:latest scan --datastore np.my_repo my_repo.git

[bradlarsen]

Interesting.

@Greg-I-Anderson, do you have some other process accessing the datastore, like a sqlite3 interpreter or some other app? That could cause what you're seeing.

What happens if you try with a new datastore that definitely does not exist, e.g.,

docker run -v "$PWD":/scan ghcr.io/praetorian-inc/noseyparker:latest scan --datastore some_nonexistent_datastore.np my_repo.git

Same error?

[munntjlx]

also try "lsof (assuming you have installed it) | grep -i your file

[Greg-I-Anderson]

Thanks both for your responses.
I am using a Microsoft Azure compute instance running on Linux.
Version -
noseyparker 0.15.0

Build Configuration:

Build Timestamp:    2023-10-13T03:58:20.722595058Z

Commit Timestamp:   2023-10-12T22:58:14.000000000-04:00
Commit Branch:      HEAD
Commit SHA:         133aa4ef01169d3d21f280f3c3de214e9caa299b

Cargo Features:     disable_trace,log,release
Debug:              false
Optimization:       3
Target Triple:      x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Build System:

OS:                 Debian GNU/Linux
OS Version:         Linux 11 Debian GNU/Linux

CPU Vendor:         GenuineIntel
CPU Brand:          Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores:          2

rustc Version:      1.71.1
rustc Channel:      stable
rustc Host Triple:  x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
rustc Commit Date:  2023-08-03
rustc Commit SHA:   eb26296b556cef10fb713a38f3d16b9886080f26
rustc LLVM Version: 16.0

[bradlarsen]

@Greg-I-Anderson If you run the following (note the different path to the datastore here), do you still see the same "database is locked" error?

docker run -v "$PWD":/scan ghcr.io/praetorian-inc/noseyparker:latest scan --datastore /root/some_nonexistent_datastore.np my_repo.git

[Greg-I-Anderson]

docker run -v "$PWD":/scan ghcr.io/praetorian-inc/noseyparker:latest scan --datastore /root/screening.np screening.git
2023-10-30T09:13:33.580831Z ERROR noseyparker::input_enumerator: Failed to get entry: screening.git: No such file or directory (os error 2); skipping
Scanned 0 B from 0 blobs in 0 seconds (0 B/s); 0/0 new matches

[bradlarsen]

@Greg-I-Anderson okay, that Docker output does show a different error. In that case, Nosey Parker actually ran without running into that datastore error, but the repository you were trying to scan screening.git didn't exist, and nothing was actually scanned.

The "database is locked" error you have been seeing is still mysterious to me.