From 98ca821085419e6bf466f515b4172942fa278b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yyforyongyu <yy2452@columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:37:05 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] lndcfg: give verbose err when failed to load config

---
 cmd/lnd/main.go  | 1 +
 lncfg/address.go | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/lnd/main.go b/cmd/lnd/main.go
index 09efa48a5..2d13fed4c 100644
--- a/cmd/lnd/main.go
+++ b/cmd/lnd/main.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ func main() {
 	if err != nil {
 		if e, ok := err.(*flags.Error); !ok || e.Type != flags.ErrHelp {
 			// Print error if not due to help request.
+			err = fmt.Errorf("failed to load config: %w", err)
 			_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
diff --git a/lncfg/address.go b/lncfg/address.go
index 0d33d6b3d..f45accb11 100644
--- a/lncfg/address.go
+++ b/lncfg/address.go
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ func NormalizeAddresses(addrs []string, defaultPort string,
 			addr, defaultPort, tcpResolver,
 		)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse address %s failed: %w",
+				addr, err)
 		}
 
 		if _, ok := seen[parsedAddr.String()]; !ok {

From e2129cd8a98b7e6ca70f725e31673ff337bd18a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yyforyongyu <yy2452@columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:51:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: update release note for load config err

---
 docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.0.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.0.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.0.md
index 95d505bb3..77c0984e7 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.0.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.14.0.md
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ you.
   `lncli deletepayments`](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5699)
   command.
 
+* [Add more verbose error printed to
+  console](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5802) when `lnd` fails
+  loading the user specified config.
+
 ## Code Health
 
 ### Code cleanup, refactor, typo fixes