From 702fe87b7d7219de14edc7467ff60e43a3aa83e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: david-sarah <david-sarah@jacaranda.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:45:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slightly improve the error message when a stats.pickle file
 cannot be read.

---
 src/allmydata/stats.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/allmydata/stats.py b/src/allmydata/stats.py
index ea0a7f85..7db323ba 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/stats.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/stats.py
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ class PickleStatsGatherer(StdOutStatsGatherer):
             try:
                 self.gathered_stats = pickle.load(f)
             except Exception:
-                print ("Error while attempting to load pickle file %s.\nYou may need to delete this file.\n" %
+                print ("Error while attempting to load pickle file %s.\n"
+                       "You may need to restore this file from a backup, or delete it if no backup is available.\n" %
                        quote_output(os.path.abspath(self.picklefile)))
                 raise
             f.close()
-- 
2.45.2