diff --git a/docs/gotchas.md b/docs/gotchas.md
index 06d2bc7..93bfc5e 100644
--- a/docs/gotchas.md
+++ b/docs/gotchas.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ bees will loop billions of times considering all possibilities.  This is
 a waste of time, so an exception is currently used to break out of such
 loops early.  The exception text in this case is:
 
-	`FIXME: bailing out here, need to fix this further up the call stack`
+	`FIXME: too many duplicate candidates, bailing out here`
 
 
 Terminating bees with SIGTERM
diff --git a/src/bees-resolve.cc b/src/bees-resolve.cc
index 99af113..66608b7 100644
--- a/src/bees-resolve.cc
+++ b/src/bees-resolve.cc
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ BeesResolver::replace_dst(const BeesFileRange &dst_bfr)
 			BEESCOUNT(replacedst_same);
 			// stop looping here, all the other srcs will probably fail this test too
 			BeesTracer::set_silent();
-			throw runtime_error("FIXME: bailing out here, need to fix this further up the call stack");
+			throw runtime_error("FIXME: too many duplicate candidates, bailing out here");
 		}
 
 		// Make pair(src, dst)