diff --git a/services/distributedfiledaemon/src/device/device_manager_agent.cpp b/services/distributedfiledaemon/src/device/device_manager_agent.cpp
index d5129fae105ac4d6ad2302e1b52ad261e0586dba..af568a2fdc44fae49e2585c323d89c756a808256 100644
--- a/services/distributedfiledaemon/src/device/device_manager_agent.cpp
+++ b/services/distributedfiledaemon/src/device/device_manager_agent.cpp
@@ -57,8 +57,14 @@ void DeviceManagerAgent::StopInstance()
 
 void DeviceManagerAgent::Start()
 {
-    RegisterToExternalDm();
-    InitLocalNodeInfo();
+    try {
+        RegisterToExternalDm();
+        InitLocalNodeInfo();
+    } catch (const Exception &e) {
+        LOGE("interacting with devicemanager failed, err code %{public}d", e.code());
+    } catch (const std::exception &e) {
+        LOGE("Unexpect Low Level exception");
+    }
 }
 
 void DeviceManagerAgent::Stop()
diff --git a/services/distributedfileservice/BUILD.gn b/services/distributedfileservice/BUILD.gn
index d59374d7139833a32e5860f7eaf5d6806990ff6e..14752194e1b10e82a0bc64dd53ad96efb116a7a9 100644
--- a/services/distributedfileservice/BUILD.gn
+++ b/services/distributedfileservice/BUILD.gn
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ ohos_shared_library("libdistributedfileservice") {
   configs = [ "${utils_path}:compiler_configs" ]
 
   external_deps = [
-    "aafwk_standard:want",
     "ability_runtime:app_manager",
     "ability_runtime:want",
     "appexecfwk_standard:appexecfwk_base",