diff --git a/releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/project/ProjectCommandExecutor.java b/releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/project/ProjectCommandExecutor.java
index 4e4f1aca..5e49997a 100644
--- a/releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/project/ProjectCommandExecutor.java
+++ b/releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/project/ProjectCommandExecutor.java
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ public class ProjectCommandExecutor {
 			log.info("No HTML files from docs contain unresolved tags");
 		}
 		catch (Exception e) {
-			throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+			String message = properties + "\n" + originalVersion + "\n" + versionFromReleaseTrain + "\n" + projectRoot;
+			throw new IllegalStateException(message, e);
 		}
 	}