It prevented the GUI from starting when its settings.json had the -upnp option set. This also doesn't
prevent the node from running, so this error didn't need to be fatal.
Thanks to Sjors for bringing attention to what i broke and to Maflcko for suggestion a simple short
term fix.
argsman.AddArg("-peertimeout=<n>",strprintf("Specify a p2p connection timeout delay in seconds. After connecting to a peer, wait this amount of time before considering disconnection based on inactivity (minimum: 1, default: %d)",DEFAULT_PEER_CONNECT_TIMEOUT),ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY|ArgsManager::DEBUG_ONLY,OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-torcontrol=<ip>:<port>",strprintf("Tor control host and port to use if onion listening enabled (default: %s). If no port is specified, the default port of %i will be used.",DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL,DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL_PORT),ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY,OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-torpassword=<pass>","Tor control port password (default: empty)",ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY|ArgsManager::SENSITIVE,OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
// UPnP support was dropped. We keep `-upnp` as a hidden arg to display a more user friendly error when set. TODO: remove (here and below) for 30.0.
// UPnP support was dropped. We keep `-upnp` as a hidden arg to display a more user friendly error when set. TODO: remove (here and below) for 30.0. NOTE: removing this option may prevent the GUI from starting, see https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/843.
argsman.AddArg("-natpmp",strprintf("Use PCP or NAT-PMP to map the listening port (default: %u)",DEFAULT_NATPMP),ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY,OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-whitebind=<[permissions@]addr>","Bind to the given address and add permission flags to the peers connecting to it. "