diff --git a/app/gen-server/lib/TypeORMPatches.ts b/app/gen-server/lib/TypeORMPatches.ts
index 6c13d009..12f1bc1a 100644
--- a/app/gen-server/lib/TypeORMPatches.ts
+++ b/app/gen-server/lib/TypeORMPatches.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 // changed during construction of a query.
 
 import * as sqlite3 from '@gristlabs/sqlite3';
+import * as log from 'app/server/lib/log';
 import {Mutex, MutexInterface} from 'async-mutex';
 import isEqual = require('lodash/isEqual');
 import {EntityManager, QueryRunner} from 'typeorm';
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ export function applyPatch() {
       await queryRunner.commitTransaction();
       return result;
     } catch (err) {
+      log.debug(`SQLite transaction error [${arg1} ${arg2}] - ${err}`);
       try {
         // we throw original error even if rollback thrown an error
         await queryRunner.rollbackTransaction();
diff --git a/app/server/lib/dbUtils.ts b/app/server/lib/dbUtils.ts
index 6a81dcec..facfa162 100644
--- a/app/server/lib/dbUtils.ts
+++ b/app/server/lib/dbUtils.ts
@@ -55,8 +55,12 @@ export async function getOrCreateConnection(): Promise<Connection> {
       // If multiple servers are started within the same process, we
       // share the database connection.  This saves locking trouble
       // with Sqlite.
-      return getConnection();
+      const connection = getConnection();
+      return connection;
     } catch (e) {
+      if (!String(e).match(/ConnectionNotFoundError/)) {
+        throw e;
+      }
       const connection = await createConnection();
       // When using Sqlite, set a busy timeout of 3s to tolerate a little
       // interference from connections made by tests. Logging doesn't show