diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 4f459c3097c..4ea46fc18b5 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -614,6 +614,10 @@ Bug fixes
   fields could lead to invalid ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions.
   (Robert Muir, Mike McCandless)
 
+* LUCENE-2744: CheckIndex was stating total number of fields,
+  not the number that have norms enabled, on the "test: field
+  norms..." output.  (Mark Kristensson via Mike McCandless)
+
 New features
 
 * LUCENE-2128: Parallelized fetching document frequencies during weight
diff --git a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java
index 01274beaf34..4656001c120 100644
--- a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java
+++ b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java
@@ -550,7 +550,9 @@ public class CheckIndex {
       }
       final byte[] b = new byte[reader.maxDoc()];
       for (final String fieldName : fieldNames) {
-        reader.norms(fieldName, b, 0);
+        if (reader.hasNorms(fieldName)) {
+          reader.norms(fieldName, b, 0);
+        }
         ++status.totFields;
       }