diff --git a/src/allmydata/storage/crawler.py b/src/allmydata/storage/crawler.py
index 3a917b8d4..438dd5e31 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/storage/crawler.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/storage/crawler.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class ShareCrawler(service.MultiService):
             f = open(self.statefile, "rb")
             state = pickle.load(f)
             f.close()
-        except EnvironmentError:
+        except Exception:
             state = {"version": 1,
                      "last-cycle-finished": None,
                      "current-cycle": None,