diff --git a/diagonalization/franza.F90 b/diagonalization/franza.F90
index c5e6db3a38781857b3ca2203e536fbd71295f6dc..41044182e4118eda11f22790c78a9f5b82c6817f 100644
--- a/diagonalization/franza.F90
+++ b/diagonalization/franza.F90
@@ -223,10 +223,9 @@ CONTAINS
           WRITE(*,*) 'Call to LAPACK routine sspevx/dspevx/chpevx/zhpevx resulted in problem:'
           WRITE(*,*) 'The library does not report an error but the number of found eigenvalues'
           WRITE(*,*) 'does not agree with the target number of eigenvalues to be calculated.'
-          WRITE(*,*) 'The LAPACK library you are linking to seems to be broken. Please link a'
-          WRITE(*,*) 'different LAPACK library.'
+          WRITE(*,*) 'This is a bug in either fleur or the linked LAPACK library.'
           WRITE(*,*) ''
-          CALL juDFT_error("Broken LAPACK library",calledby="franza")
+          CALL juDFT_error("sspevx/dspevx/chpevx/zhpevx failed without explicit errorcode.",calledby="franza")
        END IF
        IF(addstate) THEN ! cut topmost subspace of degenerate states to avoid symmetry breaking (CF)
           iu = ne