diff --git a/src/tests/test_db_env_open_nocreate.c b/src/tests/test_db_env_open_nocreate.c
index 5d89fa616c2b0e198b90db40c775dd0fbdce88fc..b54e82ae82511685675e92a1bc86cdea9d93ce62 100644
--- a/src/tests/test_db_env_open_nocreate.c
+++ b/src/tests/test_db_env_open_nocreate.c
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ int main() {
     int do_private;
 
     for (do_private=0; do_private<2; do_private++) {
+#ifdef USE_TDB
+	if (do_private==0) continue; // See #208.
+#endif
 	int private_flags = do_private ? DB_PRIVATE : 0;
 	
 	system("rm -rf " DIR);
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ int main() {
 	r = db_env_create(&dbenv, 0);
 	CKERR(r);
 	r = dbenv->open(dbenv, DIR, private_flags|DB_INIT_MPOOL, 0);
+	if (r!=ENOENT) printf("%s:%d %d: %s\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, r,db_strerror(r));
 	assert(r==ENOENT);
 	dbenv->close(dbenv,0); // free memory
     }
diff --git a/src/ydb.c b/src/ydb.c
index 7e66fe34aacbb998902ad6c0a802718f9230c0ad..2a7e43aebf760ec81774fcd9695a16ca67103d65 100644
--- a/src/ydb.c
+++ b/src/ydb.c
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ struct __toku_db_env_internal {
     TOKULOGGER logger;
 };
 
+// Probably this do_error (which is dumb and stupid) should do something consistent with do_env_err.
+static void do_error (DB_ENV *dbenv, const char *string) {
+    if (dbenv->i->errfile)
+	fprintf(dbenv->i->errfile, "%s\n", string);
+}
+
 static void toku_db_env_err(const DB_ENV * env __attribute__ ((__unused__)), int error, const char *fmt, ...) {
     va_list ap;
     va_start(ap, fmt);
@@ -272,6 +278,7 @@ static int toku_db_env_open(DB_ENV * env, const char *home, u_int32_t flags, int
 
 
     if (!(flags & DB_PRIVATE)) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "tokudb requires DB_PRIVATE\n");
         // This means that we don't have to do anything with shared memory.  
         // And that's good enough for mysql. 
         return EINVAL; 
@@ -1266,11 +1273,6 @@ static int toku_db_open(DB * db, DB_TXN * txn, const char *fname, const char *db
     return r;
 }
 
-static void do_error (DB_ENV *dbenv, const char *string) {
-    if (dbenv->i->errfile)
-	fprintf(dbenv->i->errfile, "%s\n", string);
-}
-
 static int toku_db_put_noassociate(DB * db, DB_TXN * txn, DBT * key, DBT * data, u_int32_t flags) {
     int r;