diff --git a/app/coffee/LockManager.coffee b/app/coffee/LockManager.coffee
index 5d6fa46..2877d5f 100644
--- a/app/coffee/LockManager.coffee
+++ b/app/coffee/LockManager.coffee
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Settings = require('settings-sharelatex')
 logger = require "logger-sharelatex"
 Lockfile = require('lockfile') # from https://github.com/npm/lockfile
 Errors = require "./Errors"
-
+fs = require("fs")
+Path = require("path")
 module.exports = LockManager =
 	LOCK_TEST_INTERVAL: 1000 # 50ms between each test of the lock
 	MAX_LOCK_WAIT_TIME: 15000 # 10s maximum time to spend trying to get the lock
@@ -15,7 +16,9 @@ module.exports = LockManager =
 			stale: @LOCK_STALE
 		Lockfile.lock path, lockOpts, (error) ->
 			return callback new Errors.AlreadyCompilingError("compile in progress")	if error?.code is 'EEXIST'
-			return callback(error) if error?
+			if error?
+				logger.err error:error, path:path, statLock:fs.lstatSync(path), statDir: fs.lstatSync(path.dirname(path)), "unable to get lock"
+				return callback(error) 
 			runner (error1, args...) ->
 				Lockfile.unlock path, (error2) ->
 					error = error1 or error2
diff --git a/app/coffee/ProjectPersistenceManager.coffee b/app/coffee/ProjectPersistenceManager.coffee
index 944ea70..2565af3 100644
--- a/app/coffee/ProjectPersistenceManager.coffee
+++ b/app/coffee/ProjectPersistenceManager.coffee
@@ -51,12 +51,16 @@ module.exports = ProjectPersistenceManager =
 	clearProjectFromCache: (project_id, callback = (error) ->) ->
 		logger.log project_id: project_id, "clearing project from cache"
 		UrlCache.clearProject project_id, (error) ->
-			return callback(error) if error?
+			if error?
+				logger.err error:error, project_id: project_id, "error clearing project from cache"
+				return callback(error) 
 			ProjectPersistenceManager._clearProjectFromDatabase project_id, (error) ->
-				return callback(error) if error?
-				callback()
+				if error?
+					logger.err error:error, project_id:project_id, "error clearing project from database"
+				callback(error)
 
 	_clearProjectFromDatabase: (project_id, callback = (error) ->) ->
+		logger.log project_id:project_id, "clearing project from database"
 		job = (cb)->
 			db.Project.destroy(where: {project_id: project_id})
 				.then(() -> cb())