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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-04-07 10:10:01 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-04-07 10:16:09 +0200
commit4ae5e72128f605d0fc25bba1d42c0434375d712e (patch)
treec68e11bcbe036d94eed2712daa29a058354c76ab /src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
parentf4e1c347cf1861595609ba841d35c4a59b50bde2 (diff)
Show error message if ReadConfigFile fails
A runaway exception was raised if ReadConfigFile fails (usually due to a parse error in bitcoin.conf). Show an error message instead. Fixes #4013.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/qt/bitcoin.cpp')
-rw-r--r--src/qt/bitcoin.cpp8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp b/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
index 0db4308bf6..696e65ec19 100644
--- a/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/bitcoin.cpp
@@ -507,7 +507,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
QObject::tr("Error: Specified data directory \"%1\" does not exist.").arg(QString::fromStdString(mapArgs["-datadir"])));
return 1;
}
- ReadConfigFile(mapArgs, mapMultiArgs);
+ try {
+ ReadConfigFile(mapArgs, mapMultiArgs);
+ } catch(std::exception &e) {
+ QMessageBox::critical(0, QObject::tr("Bitcoin"),
+ QObject::tr("Error: Cannot parse configuration file: %1. Only use key=value syntax.").arg(e.what()));
+ return false;
+ }
/// 7. Determine network (and switch to network specific options)
// - Do not call Params() before this step