From e2e27d1809684a6745d7b449561aeb5f30a42a74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 01:20:09 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message when failing to create the config dir

---
 src/core/settings.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/core/settings.c b/src/core/settings.c
index 3ebb9e4a..5fc37ded 100644
--- a/src/core/settings.c
+++ b/src/core/settings.c
@@ -762,7 +762,8 @@ static void init_configfile(void)
 	if (stat(get_irssi_dir(), &statbuf) != 0) {
 		/* ~/.irssi not found, create it. */
 		if (g_mkdir_with_parents(get_irssi_dir(), 0700) != 0) {
-			g_error("Couldn't create %s directory", get_irssi_dir());
+			g_error("Couldn't create %s directory: %s",
+			        get_irssi_dir(), g_strerror(errno));
 		}
 	} else if (!S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode)) {
 		g_error("%s is not a directory.\n"