When database connection fails, there is no helpful error message

[chrisjsimpson]

When the database connection fails, the user should see an error message:

Right now, the error message does not tell the developer that the database is the problem.

Proposed solution:

When the database connection fails
Show an error message that the database connection has failed

[jpaetzel]

Thanks for creating this issue, I just ran in to this and had google not pointed me here I'd have had no idea what was actually wrong.

That being said, how do I troubleshoot this? :)