From ecdcc0b522a0524fc907a2f5b7f702d9073bd37f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Oberhauser <jan.oberhauser@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:06:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] :bug: Fix issue that DB init errors did not get caught #1269

---
 packages/cli/commands/start.ts | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/cli/commands/start.ts b/packages/cli/commands/start.ts
index d6e16b7cb3..b6f0a39b3e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/commands/start.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/commands/start.ts
@@ -121,10 +121,16 @@ export class Start extends Command {
 		const { flags } = this.parse(Start);
 
 		// Wrap that the process does not close but we can still use async
-		(async () => {
+		await (async () => {
 			try {
 				// Start directly with the init of the database to improve startup time
-				const startDbInitPromise = Db.init();
+				const startDbInitPromise = Db.init().catch(error => {
+					console.error(`There was an error initializing DB: ${error.message}`);
+
+					processExistCode = 1;
+					// @ts-ignore
+					process.emit('SIGINT');
+				});
 
 				// Make sure the settings exist
 				const userSettings = await UserSettings.prepareUserSettings();