interface was suppressing storage r/w exceptions

electrum/interface.py

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import ssl
 import sys
 import traceback
 import asyncio
+import socket
 from typing import Tuple, Union, List, TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 from collections import defaultdict
 from ipaddress import IPv4Network, IPv6Network, ip_address
@@ -332,7 +333,8 @@ class Interface(Logger):
             return
         try:
             await self.open_session(ssl_context)
-        except (asyncio.CancelledError, OSError, aiorpcx.socks.SOCKSError) as e:
+        except (asyncio.CancelledError, ConnectionError, socket.gaierror, aiorpcx.socks.SOCKSError) as e:
+            # note: catching OSError would be too broad here... don't want to catch file system exceptions
             self.logger.info(f'disconnecting due to: {repr(e)}')
             return
 

electrum/storage.py

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class WalletStorage(Logger):
         DB_Class = JsonDB
         self.logger.info(f"wallet path {self.path}")
         self.pubkey = None
+        # TODO we should test r/w permissions here (whether file exists or not)
         if self.file_exists():
             with open(self.path, "r", encoding='utf-8') as f:
                 self.raw = f.read()