Did you set permissions correctly? Maybe file owner is wrong?
What version of sqlite do you have now and what was Suse's?
Can you access your database in "raw" mode
(sqlite ~/.griffith/griffith.gri)?
It was a version problem. The older db was created using sqlite3, and in my new system I got sqlite2. But griffith is using the version 2, and I don't know how to make it use version 3.
Then, I just installed sqlite3 and converted the database back to sqlite2:
sqlite3 griffith.2 .dump | sqlite teste.db
Now it's working fine ;-)
Thanks!