From c853471fbc7ea41b7c36e6fafdbbff76789f088f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: furszy <matiasfurszyfer@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:06:40 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] init: shutdown and return early if ActivateBestChain() fails.

---
 src/init.cpp | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 74bd55904af56..10e6fea7187d4 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -1793,8 +1793,11 @@ bool AppInitMain()
 
     // scan for better chains in the block chain database, that are not yet connected in the active best chain
     CValidationState state;
-    if (!ActivateBestChain(state))
+    if (!ActivateBestChain(state)) {
         strErrors << "Failed to connect best block";
+        StartShutdown();
+        return false;
+    }
     // update g_best_block if needed
     {
         LOCK(g_best_block_mutex);