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-rw-r--r--changes/4027-diagnose4
-rw-r--r--src/or/connection.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changes/4027-diagnose b/changes/4027-diagnose
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3fb6bd012d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/4027-diagnose
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ o Minor features (diagnostics):
+ - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
+ error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
+
diff --git a/src/or/connection.c b/src/or/connection.c
index 790383b184..009203095e 100644
--- a/src/or/connection.c
+++ b/src/or/connection.c
@@ -891,7 +891,8 @@ connection_create_listener(const struct sockaddr *listensockaddr,
is_tcp ? SOCK_STREAM : SOCK_DGRAM,
is_tcp ? IPPROTO_TCP: IPPROTO_UDP);
if (!SOCKET_OK(s)) {
- log_warn(LD_NET,"Socket creation failed.");
+ log_warn(LD_NET,"Socket creation failed: %s",
+ tor_socket_strerror(tor_socket_errno(-1)));
goto err;
}