diff --git a/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl b/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
index db71bc4c530f079947e87e8dae86014aa4ddf6a1..b56c702903f715824a1b866b14ffc6f5b719ede1 100644
--- a/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
+++ b/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
@@ -205,7 +205,10 @@ package SLUB::LZA::SIPBuilderBagIt;
                 SLUB::LZA::SIPBuilderBagIt::write_file("DEBUG_${ppn}_catalog_response.xml", $response->decoded_content);
             }
             my $recordData = $xp->findnodes_as_string('/*[local-name()="searchRetrieveResponse"]/*[local-name()="records"]/*[local-name()="record"]/*[local-name()="recordData"]/*');
-            if (!$recordData) { croak("ERROR: Did not get any <recordData/> for PPN '$ppn' using '$sru'");}
+            if (!$recordData) {
+                print_scalar_data("", "ERROR: did not get any <recordData/> for PPN '$ppn' using '$sru'", "", "red");
+                die();
+            }
             my $marc_doc = $parser->parse_string($recordData);
             add_marc21_schema_location($marc_doc);
             if ($with_debug) {