Print a more helpful error message if we cannot read the backup destination.

git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@973 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Main.py b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Main.py
index f522a1d..c9118bf 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Main.py
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/Main.py
@@ -704,8 +704,13 @@ def require_root_set(rp, read_only):
 	if not restore_set_root(rp):
 		Log.FatalError(("Bad directory %s.\n" % (rp.path,)) +
 		  "It doesn't appear to be an rdiff-backup destination dir")
-	Globals.rbdir.conn.fs_abilities.single_set_globals(Globals.rbdir,
-													   read_only)
+	try:
+		Globals.rbdir.conn.fs_abilities.single_set_globals(Globals.rbdir,
+														   read_only)
+	except IOError, exc:
+		print("\n")
+		Log.FatalError("Could not open rdiff-backup directory\n\n%s\n\n"
+					   "due to\n\n%s" % (Globals.rbdir.path, exc))
 	if Globals.chars_to_quote: return restore_init_quoting(rp)
 	else: return rp