diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 0547d3a46e..68287c5a92 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ sub runhttp2server {
 
     # don't retry if the server doesn't work
     if ($doesntrun{$pidfile}) {
-        return (0, 0, 0);
+        return (0, 0, 0, 0);
     }
 
     my $pid = processexists($pidfile);