Error handling if status patching fails

[shawkins]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
If a controller has custom error handling that attempts a status patch, a failure will cause the original exception and retry handling to be lost.

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Catch the patching error.

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[csviri]

see dicussion here: #2752 (comment)