This appears to be a copy-paste mistake from the check directly above. Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/viridentity.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/viridentity.c b/src/util/viridentity.c index eb77f69e2e..c18326c8cb 100644 --- a/src/util/viridentity.c +++ b/src/util/viridentity.c @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ virIdentityEnsureSystemToken(void) } else { if (virFileReadLimFD(fd, TOKEN_STRLEN, &token) < 0) { virReportSystemError(errno, - _("Failed to write system token '%s'"), + _("Failed to read system token '%s'"), tokenfile); return NULL; }