diff --git a/projects/rccl/cmake/scripts/extract_metadata.cmake b/projects/rccl/cmake/scripts/extract_metadata.cmake
index 9e0e7d10d1..7e701240e6 100644
--- a/projects/rccl/cmake/scripts/extract_metadata.cmake
+++ b/projects/rccl/cmake/scripts/extract_metadata.cmake
@@ -18,10 +18,16 @@
 # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 # SOFTWARE.
 
+set(EXTRACT_TIMEOUT 5 CACHE STRING "Timeout in seconds for roc-obj-* calls")
+
 ## List the objects for each gfx architecture
 execute_process( COMMAND roc-obj-ls librccl.so
     RESULT_VARIABLE list_result
     OUTPUT_VARIABLE cmd_output
+    ERROR_VARIABLE cmd_error
+    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+    ERROR_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+    TIMEOUT ${EXTRACT_TIMEOUT}
 )
 
 if(list_result EQUAL 0)
@@ -44,12 +50,32 @@ if(list_result EQUAL 0)
         execute_process(
           COMMAND roc-obj-extract ${file}
           RESULT_VARIABLE extraction_result
+          ERROR_VARIABLE extraction_error
+          OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+          ERROR_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+          TIMEOUT ${EXTRACT_TIMEOUT}
         )
-        if(NOT extraction_result EQUAL 0)
-          message(WARNING "Could not extract objects from ${file}")
+        if(extraction_result STREQUAL "TIMEOUT")
+          message(
+            WARNING
+              "[Timeout] Extraction of '${file}' did not finish within ${EXTRACT_TIMEOUT}s. stderr: ${extraction_error}.
+                    Timeouts have been known to happen as a result of mismatched ROCm versions/executables/etc."
+          )
+        elseif(NOT extraction_result EQUAL 0)
+          message(
+            WARNING
+              "[Error ${extraction_result}] Could not extract objects from '${file}'. stderr: ${extraction_error}"
+          )
         endif()
     endforeach()
+
+elseif(list_result STREQUAL "TIMEOUT")
+  message(
+    WARNING
+      "[Timeout] roc-obj-ls did not finish within ${EXTRACT_TIMEOUT}s. stderr: ${cmd_error}.
+                     Timeouts have been known to happen as a result of mismatched ROCm versions/executables/etc"
+  )
 else()
     ## We don't want to stop building unit-tests if this command fails.
-    message(WARNING "Command failed with error code ${result}")
-endif()
\ No newline at end of file
+    message(WARNING "[Error ${list_result}] roc-obj-ls failed. stderr: ${cmd_error}")
+endif()