From 8f94fc26e3a9de7a756df455f12f6a8fe2a6ed09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 14:29:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cmd/utils: don't crash on nonexistent datadir (#22738)

---
 cmd/utils/flags.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/utils/flags.go b/cmd/utils/flags.go
index 59cf32c98..a50fdd968 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/flags.go
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ func SetEthConfig(ctx *cli.Context, stack *node.Node, cfg *ethconfig.Config) {
 		if ctx.GlobalIsSet(DataDirFlag.Name) {
 			// Check if we have an already initialized chain and fall back to
 			// that if so. Otherwise we need to generate a new genesis spec.
-			chaindb := MakeChainDatabase(ctx, stack, true)
+			chaindb := MakeChainDatabase(ctx, stack, false) // TODO (MariusVanDerWijden) make this read only
 			if rawdb.ReadCanonicalHash(chaindb, 0) != (common.Hash{}) {
 				cfg.Genesis = nil // fallback to db content
 			}
-- 
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