diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index fa5e7567b1511fc4ee4c425f57e16ee735b8892d..829d6d29a6c8ee85ec07c8cb8bee8c0886b56da7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ stages:
     - while true; do sleep 300; x=$(oc get pods |grep $pod|awk '{ print $3}');if [ $x != "Running" ]; then break; fi; done 
     - oc logs jobs/simplejob${CI_PIPELINE_ID} | tee log.txt
     # if spack install has failed, fail the pipeline
-    - if [ $(cat log.txt |grep "Error: No module available for package"|wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then exit 1;fi;
+    - if [ $(cat log.txt |grep 'Error":" No module available for package'|wc -l) -gt 0 ]; then exit 1;fi;
     # delete the job from OpenShift as we have the logs here
     - oc delete job simplejob${CI_PIPELINE_ID} || true
   tags: