diff --git a/orte/tools/orted/help-orted.txt b/orte/tools/orted/help-orted.txt
index 6b34db994b..8e9d5f7122 100644
--- a/orte/tools/orted/help-orted.txt
+++ b/orte/tools/orted/help-orted.txt
@@ -22,11 +22,9 @@ Start an Open RTE Daemon
 
 %s
 [orted:environ]
-Error: Could not set %s in environ.
 Open RTE Daemon was unable to set 
  %s = %s
 in the environment. Returned value %d instead of ORTE_SUCCESS.
-
 [orted:init-failure]
 Open RTE was unable to initialize properly.  The error occured while
 attempting to %s.  Returned value %d instead of ORTE_SUCCESS.