Rename maybe_init_lightning(). Call load_data() from there

electrum/daemon.py

@@ -448,8 +448,7 @@ class Daemon(Logger):
         if self.network:
             self.network.start(jobs=[self.fx.run])
             # prepare lightning functionality, also load channel db early
-            self.network.maybe_init_lightning()
-            self.network.channel_db.load_data()
+            self.network.init_channel_db()
 
         self.taskgroup = TaskGroup()
         asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(self._run(jobs=daemon_jobs), self.asyncio_loop)

electrum/network.py

@@ -347,12 +347,13 @@ class Network(Logger, NetworkRetryManager[ServerAddr]):
     def has_channel_db(self):
         return self.channel_db is not None
 
-    def maybe_init_lightning(self):
+    def init_channel_db(self):
         if self.channel_db is None:
             from . import lnrouter
             from . import channel_db
             self.channel_db = channel_db.ChannelDB(self)
             self.path_finder = lnrouter.LNPathFinder(self.channel_db)
+            self.channel_db.load_data()
 
     def start_gossip(self):
         if self.lngossip is None: