diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index b8fdde94ba65f428a3e1d870e3dcde783d830fcb..122ef5a47bcf2ccbea9ed7cdb52c8c7dcc42a874 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -175,11 +175,11 @@ convert_to_gdml:
 
 tracking_geometry_debug:
   stage: test
-  allow_failure: true
   needs: 
     - ["common:detector"]
   script:
     - root -b -q "scripts/test_ACTS.cxx+(\"${DETECTOR_PATH}/athena.xml\")" | tee geo/tracking_geometry_debug.out 
+    - ./bin/acts_geo_check geo/tracking_geometry_debug.out
 
 detector:config_testing:
   stage: test
diff --git a/bin/acts_geo_check b/bin/acts_geo_check
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a18df6606bc7a1634203acc43c98962fe88913e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/acts_geo_check
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+logfile=$1
+
+# parse the verobse output of scripts/test_ACTS.cxx
+res=0
+
+nlines=$(grep -in error ${logfile} | grep -in D2A_ | wc -l)
+if [[ "$nlines" > "0" ]] ; then
+  echo " ACTS geometry error: "
+  grep -in error ${logfile} | grep -in D2A_ 
+  res="1"
+fi
+
+
+nlines=$(grep -in warn ${logfile} | grep -in D2A_ | wc -l)
+if [[ "$nlines" > "0" ]] ; then
+  echo " ACTS geometry error: "
+  grep -in warn ${logfile} | grep -in D2A_ 
+  res="1"
+fi
+
+exit ${res}
+