diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
index 6b79dc313c..1b96362314 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
@@ -1540,6 +1540,7 @@ impl Tenant {
                                 // load and attach code bails out if _any_ of the timeline fails to fetch its IndexPart.
                                 // That is, before we declare the Tenant as Active.
                                 // But we only allow calls to delete_timeline on Active tenants.
+                                warn!("failed to stop RemoteTimelineClient due to uninitialized queue");
                                 return Err(InnerDeleteTimelineError::QueueUninitialized);
                             }
                         },