if we fail to create the server mutex, gracefully report error without sending error to Sentry (#705)

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dec3a3029..70ad053e9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 - Improvement: Use decompress to composite to avoid allocating a new memory buffer for uncompressed chunks during oplog import
 - Improvement: Reduce memory buffer size and allocate it on demand when writing multiple chunks to block store
 - Improvement: Reduce lock contention when fetching/checking existence of chunks in block store
+- Improvement: If we fail to create the server mutex, gracefully report the problem and exit without sending error to Sentry
 - Bugfix: Upstream propagation of Put operations would not retain the overwrite cache policy if it was used
 
 ## 5.7.15
diff --git a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
index ab8dbb16b..95ea114bb 100644
--- a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
+++ b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ ZenServerBase::Initialize(const ZenServerConfig& ServerOptions, ZenServerState::
 
 	if (m_ServerMutex.Create(MutexName) == false)
 	{
-		ThrowLastError(fmt::format("Failed to create mutex '{}'", MutexName).c_str());
+		std::error_code Ec = MakeErrorCodeFromLastError();
+		ZEN_WARN("Failed to create server mutex '{}'. Reason: '{}' ({})", MutexName, Ec.message(), Ec.value());
+		return -1;
 	}
 
 	EnqueueSigIntTimer();