From 0f0df6282a1ae6586f0d19b6be89ce8e05c14e19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael FIG <mfig@agoric.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:50:06 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: be more explicit when provision-one doesn't return JSON

---
 packages/agoric-cli/lib/start.js | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/agoric-cli/lib/start.js b/packages/agoric-cli/lib/start.js
index bcc965a4d92..db934f49b6a 100644
--- a/packages/agoric-cli/lib/start.js
+++ b/packages/agoric-cli/lib/start.js
@@ -463,9 +463,14 @@ export default async function startMain(progname, rawArgs, powers, opts) {
         // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
         exitStatus = await capret[0];
         if (!exitStatus) {
-          const ret = JSON.parse(capret[1]);
-          if (ret.code !== 0) {
-            exitStatus = 2;
+          try {
+            const ret = JSON.parse(capret[1]);
+            if (ret.code !== 0) {
+              exitStatus = 2;
+            }
+          } catch (e) {
+            console.error(`Cannot parse JSON:`, e, capret[1]);
+            exitStatus = 99;
           }
         }
       }