diff --git a/src/dsl.cc b/src/dsl.cc
index dc4ec558..9e5d220c 100644
--- a/src/dsl.cc
+++ b/src/dsl.cc
@@ -1359,6 +1359,8 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
       continue;
     }
 
+    unsigned atLine = 0; // Indicates current line in .dsl, for debug purposes
+
     try
     {
       vector< string > dictFiles( 1, *i );
@@ -1385,6 +1387,9 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
       {
         DslScanner scanner( *i );
 
+        try { // Here we intercept any errors during the read to save line at
+              // which the incident happened. We need alive scanner for that.
+
         if ( scanner.getDictionaryName() == GD_NATIVE_TO_WS( L"Abbrev" ) )
           continue; // For now just skip abbreviations
 
@@ -1643,16 +1648,24 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
         idx.rewind();
 
         idx.write( &idxHeader, sizeof( idxHeader ) );
+
+      } // In-place try for saving line count
+      catch( ... )
+      {
+        atLine = scanner.getLinesRead();
+        throw;
       }
 
+      } // if need to rebuild
+
       dictionaries.push_back( new DslDictionary( dictId,
                                                  indexFile,
                                                  dictFiles ) );
     }
     catch( std::exception & e )
     {
-      fprintf( stderr, "DSL dictionary reading failed: %s, error: %s\n",
-        i->c_str(), e.what() );
+      fprintf( stderr, "DSL dictionary reading failed: %s:%u, error: %s\n",
+        i->c_str(), atLine, e.what() );
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/dsl_details.cc b/src/dsl_details.cc
index 9b96b432..aa234c72 100644
--- a/src/dsl_details.cc
+++ b/src/dsl_details.cc
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ void ArticleDom::nextChar() throw( eot )
 
 DslScanner::DslScanner( string const & fileName ) throw( Ex, Iconv::Ex ):
   encoding( Windows1252 ), iconv( encoding ), readBufferPtr( readBuffer ),
-  readBufferLeft( 0 )
+  readBufferLeft( 0 ), linesRead( 0 )
 {
   // Since .dz is backwards-compatible with .gz, we use gz- functions to
   // read it -- they are much nicer than the dict_data- ones.
@@ -705,6 +705,8 @@ bool DslScanner::readNextLine( wstring & out, size_t & offset ) throw( Ex,
 
         out = wstring( &wcharBuffer.front(), outPtr - &wcharBuffer.front() );
 
+        ++linesRead;
+
         return true;
       }
       else
@@ -752,6 +754,8 @@ bool DslScanner::readNextLine( wstring & out, size_t & offset ) throw( Ex,
 
       out = wstring( &wcharBuffer.front(), outPtr - &wcharBuffer.front() );
 
+      ++linesRead;
+
       return true;
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/dsl_details.hh b/src/dsl_details.hh
index 63645f3b..517b4241 100644
--- a/src/dsl_details.hh
+++ b/src/dsl_details.hh
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ class DslScanner
   char * readBufferPtr;
   size_t readBufferLeft;
   vector< wchar > wcharBuffer;
+  unsigned linesRead;
 
 public:
 
@@ -144,6 +145,10 @@ public:
   /// with #).
   bool readNextLine( wstring &, size_t & offset ) throw( Ex, Iconv::Ex );
 
+  /// Returns the number of lines read so far from the file.
+  unsigned getLinesRead() const
+  { return linesRead; }
+
   /// Converts the given number of characters to the number of bytes they
   /// would occupy in the file, knowing its encoding. It's possible to know
   /// that because no multibyte encodings are supported in .dsls.