GUI: handle cases when gui fails to start daemon on demand rhbz#543725

3 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/Gui/CCDBusBackend.py b/src/Gui/CCDBusBackend.py
index c8b8ca8f..665f17a8 100644
--- a/src/Gui/CCDBusBackend.py
+++ b/src/Gui/CCDBusBackend.py
@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ class DBusManager(gobject.GObject):
             self.bus = dbus.SystemBus()
         if not self.bus:
             raise Exception(_("Can't connect to system dbus"))
-        proxy = self.bus.get_object(CC_IFACE, CC_PATH, introspect=False)
+        try:
+            proxy = self.bus.get_object(CC_IFACE, CC_PATH, introspect=False)
+        except DBusException:
+            proxy = None
+            raise Exception("Can't connect to abrt daemon.")
         if not proxy:
             raise Exception(_("Please check if abrt daemon is running"))
         daemon = dbus.Interface(proxy, dbus_interface=CC_IFACE)
diff --git a/src/Gui/CCDumpList.py b/src/Gui/CCDumpList.py
index 9833ad21..09191f51 100644
--- a/src/Gui/CCDumpList.py
+++ b/src/Gui/CCDumpList.py
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ class DumpList(list):
                     self.append(entry)
                     self.ddict[entry.getUUID()] = entry
             except Exception, e:
-                print e
-                return
+                # FIXME handle exception better
+                # this is just temporary workaround for rhbz#543725
+                raise
         else:
             print "db == None!"
 
diff --git a/src/Gui/CCMainWindow.py b/src/Gui/CCMainWindow.py
index f34ac2e6..88d931b4 100644
--- a/src/Gui/CCMainWindow.py
+++ b/src/Gui/CCMainWindow.py
@@ -195,7 +195,10 @@ class MainWindow():
         try:
             dumplist = getDumpList(self.ccdaemon, refresh=True)
         except Exception, e:
-            gui_error_message(_("Error while loading the dumplist, please check if abrt daemon is running\n %s" % e))
+            # there is something wrong with the daemon if we can get the dumplist
+            gui_error_message(_("Error while loading the dumplist.\n%s" % e))
+            # so we shouldn't continue..
+            sys.exit()
         for entry in dumplist[::-1]:
             try:
                 icon = get_icon_for_package(self.theme, entry.getPackageName())