From 4a305a42a79bc586ba57a0017761e0fc05402fdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 11:34:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] softMain log iocInit() failure.

---
 modules/database/src/std/softIoc/softMain.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/database/src/std/softIoc/softMain.cpp b/modules/database/src/std/softIoc/softMain.cpp
index 11eb76120..892246ae1 100644
--- a/modules/database/src/std/softIoc/softMain.cpp
+++ b/modules/database/src/std/softIoc/softMain.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "epicsExit.h"
 #include "epicsStdio.h"
 #include "epicsString.h"
+#include "errlog.h"
 #include "dbStaticLib.h"
 #include "subRecord.h"
 #include "dbAccess.h"
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ void usage(const char *arg0, const std::string& base_dbd) {
                "interactive IOC shell.\n"
                "\n"
                "Compiled-in path to softIoc.dbd is:\n"
-               "\t"<<base_dbd.c_str()<<"\n";
+               "\t"<<base_dbd.c_str()<<std::endl;
 }
 
 void errIf(int ret, const std::string& msg)
@@ -239,7 +240,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
         if (loadedDb) {
             if (verbose)
                 std::cout<<"iocInit()\n";
-            iocInit();
+            if(iocInit()) {
+                std::cerr<<ERL_ERROR " during iocInit()"<<std::endl;
+            }
             epicsThreadSleep(0.2);
         }