diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 7a9ae34e47b..689860c356c 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ Bug Fixes
 * SOLR-4251: Fix SynonymFilterFactory when an optional tokenizerFactory is supplied.
   (Chris Bleakley via rmuir)
 
+* SOLR-4253: Misleading resource loading warning from Carrot2 clustering 
+  component fixed (Stanisław Osiński)
+
+
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/clustering/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/clustering/carrot2/CarrotClusteringEngine.java b/solr/contrib/clustering/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/clustering/carrot2/CarrotClusteringEngine.java
index 84665357f1c..396f63b4691 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/clustering/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/clustering/carrot2/CarrotClusteringEngine.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/clustering/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/clustering/carrot2/CarrotClusteringEngine.java
@@ -132,13 +132,10 @@ public class CarrotClusteringEngine extends SearchClusteringEngine {
       try {
         resourceStream = resourceLoader.openResource(resourceName);
         asBytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(resourceStream);
-      } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+      } catch (IOException e) {
         log.debug("Resource not found in Solr's config: " + resourceName
             + ". Using the default " + resource + " from Carrot JAR.");          
         return new IResource[] {};
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        log.warn("Could not read Solr resource " + resourceName);
-        return new IResource[] {};
       } finally {
         if (resourceStream != null) Closeables.closeQuietly(resourceStream);
       }