diff --git a/brozzler/frontier.py b/brozzler/frontier.py
index 72934a8..704c0e5 100644
--- a/brozzler/frontier.py
+++ b/brozzler/frontier.py
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ class RethinkDbFrontier:
         if len(pages) > 1:
             self.logger.warn(
                     "more than one seed page for site_id %s ?", site_id)
+        if len(pages) < 1:
+            return None
         return brozzler.Page(**pages[0])
 
     def site_pages(self, site_id, unbrozzled_only=False):
diff --git a/brozzler/worker.py b/brozzler/worker.py
index f30705b..0f2f545 100644
--- a/brozzler/worker.py
+++ b/brozzler/worker.py
@@ -360,7 +360,12 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
             self.logger.critical("thread exiting due to unexpected exception", exc_info=True)
         finally:
             if self._service_registry and hasattr(self, "status_info"):
-                self._service_registry.unregister(self.status_info["id"])
+                try:
+                    self._service_registry.unregister(self.status_info["id"])
+                except:
+                    self.logger.error(
+                            "failed to unregister from service registry",
+                            exc_info=True)
 
     def start(self):
         th = threading.Thread(target=self.run, name="BrozzlerWorker")
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b21c89f..73ceca3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import setuptools
 import glob
 
 setuptools.setup(name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1.dev9',
+        version='1.1.dev10',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/nlevitt/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',