Fix 'openstack --help' fails if clouds.yaml cannot be read

'openstack --help' can display the basic information, even if
 openstack command does not have permission to read clouds.yaml.

Change-Id: I7d5255c5ce3bd60af77fc70f433ca78dc011a79f
Closes-Bug: #1541047

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/openstackclient/shell.py b/openstackclient/shell.py
index c84e2b1d..137446ef 100644
--- a/openstackclient/shell.py
+++ b/openstackclient/shell.py
@@ -234,12 +234,17 @@ class OpenStackShell(app.App):
         # Do configuration file handling
         # Ignore the default value of interface. Only if it is set later
         # will it be used.
-        cc = cloud_config.OpenStackConfig(
-            override_defaults={
-                'interface': None,
-                'auth_type': auth_type,
+        try:
+            cc = cloud_config.OpenStackConfig(
+                override_defaults={
+                    'interface': None,
+                    'auth_type': auth_type,
                 },
             )
+        except (IOError, OSError) as e:
+            self.log.critical("Could not read clouds.yaml configuration file")
+            self.print_help_if_requested()
+            raise e
 
         # TODO(thowe): Change cliff so the default value for debug
         # can be set to None.