From 795eec10ae2d19d46bfa7fa21d944d374ed050c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paul <paul@d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:40:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] don't throw an exception if /home/paul is not writable

git-svn-id: http://subversion.ardour.org/svn/ardour2/ardour2/branches/2.0-ongoing@7261 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf
---
 libs/ardour/globals.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libs/ardour/globals.cc b/libs/ardour/globals.cc
index e298c0d63..5b6c3286e 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/globals.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/globals.cc
@@ -433,7 +433,9 @@ ARDOUR::get_user_ardour_path ()
 	/* create it if necessary */
 
 	if (g_mkdir_with_parents (path.c_str (), 0755)) {
-		throw exception ();
+                cerr << "\n\n\nYour home folder is not writable (Ardour cannot create its settings folder there). Please fix this before running Ardour again."
+                     << endl;
+                _exit (1);
 	}
 
 	return path;
-- 
2.11.4.GIT