throwing an unknown exception causes daqcontrol to hang
When throwing an exception such as std::runtime_error in the Module's code for configure() the Command::configure() method will catch an "Unknown Exception" and terminate immediately.
This causes the xmlrpc.client in daqcontrol.py to hang waiting for a response, as the xmlrpc server just terminated (this seems a limitation of the xmlrpc libraries, but more testing is needed here).
If instead of a std::exception an ERS_ISSUE is thrown, the Command::configure() method will catch the issue and respond to the xmlrpc.client with a "Failure" instead of "Success".
In this case, the current state of the Module is left hanging as "configuring". This is not the preferred behavior, and in case of catched issue, the state should be set back to the state-before-command in DAQling Core.