From: david-sarah <david-sarah@jacaranda.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:45:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Slightly improve the error message when a stats.pickle file cannot be read.
X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10a1~69
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/%22news.html/install.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=702fe87b7d7219de14edc7467ff60e43a3aa83e3;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

Slightly improve the error message when a stats.pickle file cannot be read.
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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()