diff --git a/src/test/os/TestLFNIndex.cc b/src/test/os/TestLFNIndex.cc
index ad4cb75e011..1ff2e4d8bd2 100644
--- a/src/test/os/TestLFNIndex.cc
+++ b/src/test/os/TestLFNIndex.cc
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public:
     const std::string mangled_name = lfn_generate_object_name(hoid);
     EXPECT_EQ(mangled_expected, mangled_name);
     ghobject_t hoid_parsed;
-    EXPECT_TRUE(lfn_parse_object_name(mangled_name, &hoid_parsed));
+    EXPECT_EQ(0, lfn_parse_object_name(mangled_name, &hoid_parsed));
     EXPECT_EQ(hoid, hoid_parsed);
   }