diff -r b33d70849a20 -r f8e1456e1c2c mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Nov 02 10:15:04 2009 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Nov 02 10:17:20 2009 +0100
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
 
         # abort here if the journal already exists
         if os.path.exists(self.sjoin("journal")):
-            raise error.RepoError(_("journal already exists - run hg recover"))
+            raise error.RepoError(_("abandoned transaction found - run hg recover"))
 
         # save dirstate for rollback
         try: