From 3e2f67fda7231a226cb863342cc28fdb44c90f8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Rickmar <jrick@conformal.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:20:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Short circuit handshake if default account does not exist.

---
 sockets.go | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sockets.go b/sockets.go
index e8bbb4e..0d23a01 100644
--- a/sockets.go
+++ b/sockets.go
@@ -581,7 +581,9 @@ func Handshake(rpc RPCConn) error {
 	// track recently-seen blocks.
 	a, err := accountstore.Account("")
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		// No account yet is not a handshake error, but means our
+		// handshake is done.
+		return nil
 	}
 
 	// TODO(jrick): if height is less than the earliest-saved block