diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/docker_manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/docker_manager.go
index 6544562e702..99e2aa2114c 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/docker_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockertools/docker_manager.go
@@ -1603,7 +1603,7 @@ func (dm *DockerManager) applyOOMScoreAdjIfNeeded(pod *api.Pod, container *api.C
 	// If current api version is older than OOMScoreAdj requested, use the old way.
 	if result < 0 {
 		if err := dm.applyOOMScoreAdj(pod, container, containerInfo); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to apply oom-score-adj to container %q- %v", err, containerInfo.Name)
+			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to apply oom-score-adj to container %q- %v", containerInfo.Name, err)
 		}
 	}