diff --git a/.pick_status.json b/.pick_status.json
index 3b3fef34b7b..fc588e1257d 100644
--- a/.pick_status.json
+++ b/.pick_status.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "description": "rusticl: Show an error message if the version of bindgen can't be detected",
         "nominated": false,
         "nomination_type": 3,
-        "resolution": 4,
+        "resolution": 1,
         "main_sha": null,
         "because_sha": null,
         "notes": null
diff --git a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
index 6cff319f780..92b23f548ff 100644
--- a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
+++ b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
@@ -114,11 +114,17 @@ rusticl_bindgen_args = [
   '--anon-fields-prefix', 'anon_',
 ]
 
-if find_program('bindgen').version().version_compare('< 0.62')
+bindgen_version = find_program('bindgen').version()
+
+if bindgen_version == 'unknown'
+  error('Failed to detect bindgen version. If you are using bindgen 0.69.0, please either update to 0.69.1 or downgrade to 0.68.1. You can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
+endif
+
+if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.62')
   error('rusticl requires bindgen 0.62 or newer. If your distribution does not ship a recent enough version, you can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
 endif
 
-if find_program('bindgen').version().version_compare('< 0.65')
+if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.65')
   rusticl_bindgen_args += [
     '--size_t-is-usize',
   ]