diff --git a/test/com/sun/tools/attach/StartManagementAgent.java b/test/com/sun/tools/attach/StartManagementAgent.java
index da8289558ae05b11c7651c93aeb458f8a3fe807b..cc3969084ebb37131fb844931c0aa8b765dd7231 100644
--- a/test/com/sun/tools/attach/StartManagementAgent.java
+++ b/test/com/sun/tools/attach/StartManagementAgent.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class StartManagementAgent {
         } catch(AttachOperationFailedException ex) {
             // We expect parsing of "apa" above to fail, but if the file path
             // can't be read we get a different exception message
-            if (!ex.getMessage().contains("Invalid com.sun.management.jmxremote.port number")) {
+            if (!ex.getMessage().contains("NumberFormatException: For input string: \"apa\"")) {
                 throw ex;
             }
         }