From d94c04b5bbf73a1ef468d1bb3d612031836a00b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@freedombone.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:48:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Exception handling while starting followers thread

---
 posts.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/posts.py b/posts.py
index da1a45e7..87eab77e 100644
--- a/posts.py
+++ b/posts.py
@@ -2167,7 +2167,16 @@ def sendToFollowersThread(session, baseDir: str,
                               cachedWebfingers, personCache,
                               postJsonObject.copy(), debug,
                               projectVersion), daemon=True)
-    sendThread.start()
+    try:
+        sendThread.start()
+    except SocketError as e:
+        print('WARN: socket error while starting ' +
+              'thread to send to followers. ' + str(e))
+        return None
+    except BaseException:
+        print('WARN: error while starting ' +
+              'thread to send to followers. ' + str(e))
+        return None
     return sendThread