Better behaviour if config fails to load.

Create a default config if any exception is thrown by ::read, and
tell the UI so that it can pop up a message to say what has happened.

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+2016-07-14  Carl Hetherington  <cth@carlh.net>
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+	* Use default configuration if the config.xml failed to load;
+	may help with #917.
+
 2016-07-12  Carl Hetherington  <cth@carlh.net>
 
 	* Version 2.9.2 released.