diff --git a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/generators.cc b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/generators.cc
index 300bcc122..75de2f957 100644
--- a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/generators.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/generators.cc
@@ -420,11 +420,9 @@ TraceGen::InputStream::init()
     ProtoMessage::PacketHeader header_msg;
     if (!trace.read(header_msg)) {
         panic("Failed to read packet header from trace\n");
-
-        if (header_msg.tick_freq() != SimClock::Frequency) {
-            panic("Trace was recorded with a different tick frequency %d\n",
-                  header_msg.tick_freq());
-        }
+    } else if (header_msg.tick_freq() != SimClock::Frequency) {
+        panic("Trace was recorded with a different tick frequency %d\n",
+              header_msg.tick_freq());
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-simple-mem.trc b/tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-simple-mem.trc
index 58f0e1115..9a3425ea8 100644
--- a/tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-simple-mem.trc
+++ b/tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-simple-mem.trc
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-gem51
-)Converted ASCII trace tgen-simple-mem.trc�����
犍	 @��� @
\ No newline at end of file
+gem5)
+ Converted ASCII trace output.txt������
犍	 @��� @
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/util/encode_packet_trace.py b/util/encode_packet_trace.py
index bee26f01c..0734d43c8 100755
--- a/util/encode_packet_trace.py
+++ b/util/encode_packet_trace.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def main():
     header = packet_pb2.PacketHeader()
     header.obj_id = "Converted ASCII trace " + sys.argv[1]
     # Assume the default tick rate
-    header.tick_freq = 1000000000
+    header.tick_freq = 1000000000000
     protolib.encodeMessage(proto_out, header)
 
     # For each line in the ASCII trace, create a packet message and