HRESULT 0x87AF1A03 (SQLITE_E_IOERR_AUTH): meaning and diagnosis

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A SQLite extension reported the reserved AUTH I/O error.

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SQLITE_E_IOERR_AUTH

SQLITE_E_IOERR_AUTH is reserved for extensions and is not used by the SQLite core according to current SQLite documentation.

Identify custom VFS, encryption, authentication, or storage extensions attached to the connection.
Inspect extension-specific logs and error mapping rather than assuming a standard SQLite authorization failure.
Capture the exact database open flags and connection configuration for a reproducible test.

SELECT sqlite_version();

This result has the HRESULT value 0x87AF1A03. AllStat records the condition as “SQLITE_IOERR_AUTH”.

Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the sqlite / ioerr / auth operation.
compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.

Retry this result only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “SQLITE_IOERR_AUTH” has changed.