diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index ddc9da33c16..5fc3789a510 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
                Purtell)
    HBASE-2122  [stargate] Initializing scanner column families doesn't work
                (Greg Lu via Andrew Purtell)
+   HBASE-2124  Useless exception in HMaster on startup
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZooKeeperWrapper.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZooKeeperWrapper.java
index cccd9d38ee8..57de37bdae5 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZooKeeperWrapper.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZooKeeperWrapper.java
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ public class ZooKeeperWrapper implements HConstants {
     try {
       return readAddressOrThrow(znode, watcher);
     } catch (IOException e) {
+      LOG.debug("Failed to read " + e.getMessage());
       return null;
     }
   }