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
try:
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.")
return
except (socket.error, JSONRPCException):