From 55e6629fb49187f90e3c8357cee16ab393f5667d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Kellermann <max@musicpd.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:39:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] output/Control: catch and log StartThread() exceptions

---
 src/output/Control.cxx | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/output/Control.cxx b/src/output/Control.cxx
index 2690f99c8..211044e57 100644
--- a/src/output/Control.cxx
+++ b/src/output/Control.cxx
@@ -190,8 +190,14 @@ AudioOutputControl::Open(const AudioFormat audio_format,
 	request.audio_format = audio_format;
 	request.pipe = &mp;
 
-	if (!thread.IsDefined())
-		StartThread();
+	if (!thread.IsDefined()) {
+		try {
+			StartThread();
+		} catch (...) {
+			LogError(std::current_exception());
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
 
 	CommandWait(Command::OPEN);
 	const bool open2 = open;