diff --git a/DDCond/src/plugins/ConditionsRepositoryParser.cpp b/DDCond/src/plugins/ConditionsRepositoryParser.cpp
index 0a0d2a1c5b3b80a9d75b81a4e6a54a64d9b70112..db0e7dad2b7b282eff8f22c9f9ed6fd0bcbe0b73 100644
--- a/DDCond/src/plugins/ConditionsRepositoryParser.cpp
+++ b/DDCond/src/plugins/ConditionsRepositoryParser.cpp
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ namespace dd4hep {
  */
 static long setup_repository_loglevel(Detector& /* description */, int argc, char** argv)  {
   if ( argc == 1 )  {
-    s_parseLevel = printLevel(argv[1]);
+    s_parseLevel = printLevel(argv[0]);
     return 1;
   }
   except("ConditionsXMLRepositoryPrintLevel","++ Invalid plugin arguments: %s",