topic After upgrade to Splunk 6.4, why does splunkd not start on Windows with &quot;ERROR SQLitePersistentStorageImpl...unable to open database file&quot;? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/After-upgrade-to-Splunk-6-4-why-does-splunkd-not-start-on/m-p/270761#M51986 <P>After I upgraded Splunk to version 6.4 on Windows, splunkd service doesn't start and I see the following error in log file:</P> <PRE><CODE>ERROR SQLitePersistentStorageImpl - Error opening database unable to open database file </CODE></PRE> <P>I followed other posts and opened the SQLite files ([SPLUNK_HOME]\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage ) with SQLite Browser to check if files are corrupted and they are all fine.</P> <P>Has anybody faced same issue after upgrade?<BR /> Thanks</P> Thu, 26 May 2016 16:31:35 GMT hmozaffari 2016-05-26T16:31:35Z After upgrade to Splunk 6.4, why does splunkd not start on Windows with "ERROR SQLitePersistentStorageImpl...unable to open database file"? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/After-upgrade-to-Splunk-6-4-why-does-splunkd-not-start-on/m-p/270761#M51986 <P>After I upgraded Splunk to version 6.4 on Windows, splunkd service doesn't start and I see the following error in log file:</P> <PRE><CODE>ERROR SQLitePersistentStorageImpl - Error opening database unable to open database file </CODE></PRE> <P>I followed other posts and opened the SQLite files ([SPLUNK_HOME]\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage ) with SQLite Browser to check if files are corrupted and they are all fine.</P> <P>Has anybody faced same issue after upgrade?<BR /> Thanks</P> Thu, 26 May 2016 16:31:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/After-upgrade-to-Splunk-6-4-why-does-splunkd-not-start-on/m-p/270761#M51986 hmozaffari 2016-05-26T16:31:35Z Re: After upgrade to Splunk 6.4, why does splunkd not start on Windows with "ERROR SQLitePersistentStorageImpl...unable to open database file"? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/After-upgrade-to-Splunk-6-4-why-does-splunkd-not-start-on/m-p/270762#M51987 <P>Followed <A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/387455/having-hundreds-of-sqlitepersistentstorageimp-erro-1.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/387455/having-hundreds-of-sqlitepersistentstorageimp-erro-1.html</A> and renamed <BR /> <CODE>Splunk\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage\seqno_db</CODE> <BR /> and <BR /> <CODE>Splunk\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage\fschangemanager_state</CODE> <BR /> and splunkd started and recreated those files.</P> Thu, 26 May 2016 21:05:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/After-upgrade-to-Splunk-6-4-why-does-splunkd-not-start-on/m-p/270762#M51987 hmozaffari 2016-05-26T21:05:57Z