add a more useful exception if auth fails on lbrycrd

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Job Evers-Meltzer 2016-07-04 15:40:52 -05:00
parent 905e7e41a6
commit 976c8b3ce0

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@ -726,7 +726,11 @@ class LBRYcrdWallet(LBRYWallet):
tries = 0 tries = 0
try: try:
rpc_conn = self._get_rpc_conn() rpc_conn = self._get_rpc_conn()
rpc_conn.getinfo() try:
rpc_conn.getinfo()
except ValueError:
log.exception('Failed to get rpc info. Rethrowing with a hopefully more useful error message')
raise Exception('Failed to get rpc info from lbrycrdd. Try restarting lbrycrdd')
log.info("lbrycrdd was already running when LBRYcrdWallet was started.") log.info("lbrycrdd was already running when LBRYcrdWallet was started.")
return return
except (socket.error, JSONRPCException): except (socket.error, JSONRPCException):