diff --git a/pyfpdb/DerivedStats.py b/pyfpdb/DerivedStats.py
index a4fb630b..7d428be9 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/DerivedStats.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/DerivedStats.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class DerivedStats():
         self.hands['playersVpi'] = len(vpipers)
 
     def playersAtStreetX(self, hand):
-    """playersAtStreet1 SMALLINT NOT NULL,   /* num of players seeing flop/street4/draw1 */"""
+        """ playersAtStreet1 SMALLINT NOT NULL,   /* num of players seeing flop/street4/draw1 */"""
         # self.actions[street] is a list of all actions in a tuple, contining the player name first
         # [ (player, action, ....), (player2, action, ...) ]
         # The number of unique players in the list per street gives the value for playersAtStreetXXX
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class DerivedStats():
         # [ (player, action, ....), (player2, action, ...) ]
         # No idea what this value is actually supposed to be
         # In theory its "num small bets paid to see flop/street4, including blind" which makes sense for limit. Not so useful for nl
-
+        pass
 
     def aggr(self, hand, i):
         aggrers = set()
diff --git a/pyfpdb/Exceptions.py b/pyfpdb/Exceptions.py
index f3d75e89..eaf5d798 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/Exceptions.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/Exceptions.py
@@ -17,5 +17,8 @@ class FpdbParseError(FpdbError):
 class FpdbDatabaseError(FpdbError):
     pass
 
+class FpdbMySQLFailedError(FpdbDatabaseError):
+    pass
+
 class DuplicateError(FpdbError):
     pass
diff --git a/pyfpdb/fpdb.py b/pyfpdb/fpdb.py
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 4065c243..6d58f733
--- a/pyfpdb/fpdb.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/fpdb.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ import SQL
 import Database
 import FpdbSQLQueries
 import Configuration
-from Exceptions import *
+import Exceptions
 
 VERSION = "0.11"
 
@@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ class fpdb:
         self.sql = SQL.Sql(type = self.settings['db-type'], db_server = self.settings['db-server'])
         try:
             self.db = Database.Database(self.config, sql = self.sql)
+        except Exceptions.FpdbMySQLFailedError:
+            self.warning_box("Unable to connect to MySQL! Is the MySQL server running?!", "FPDB ERROR")
+            exit()
         except FpdbError:
             print "Failed to connect to %s database with username %s." % (self.settings['db-server'], self.settings['db-user'])
             sys.stderr.write("Failed to connect to %s database with username %s." % (self.settings['db-server'], self.settings['db-user']))
diff --git a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
index 428aa173..17fecc2c 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class fpdb_db:
             try:
                 self.db = MySQLdb.connect(host = host, user = user, passwd = password, db = database, use_unicode=True)
             except:
-                raise FpdbError("MySQL connection failed")
+                raise FpdbMySQLFailedError("MySQL connection failed")
         elif backend==fpdb_db.PGSQL:
             import psycopg2
             import psycopg2.extensions