Setting maxiter doesn't align with error message

[snowysnowcones]

Hi,
I have a model that fails to converge, and receive the error message:
"ERROR: failure to converge after 2 iterations. Coefficient update contains infinite values"

The firs think I try to do is set the maxiter higher. I see in the docs the default is supposed to be 100 iterations. However, when I set the maxiter higher:
fit_beta_model = fit(BetaRegressionModel,betamodel,beta_file;maxiter=5000)

I still receive the same error message:
"ERROR: failure to converge after 2 iterations. Coefficient update contains infinite values"

Did the max iterations fail to set? Is the error message incorrect? How do I know one way or another?

Thanks
Snowy