diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 08c16fe16c9..0df665a3a9f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -466,6 +466,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8069. Enable TCP_NODELAY by default for IPC. (Todd Lipcon via
     Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HADOOP-10902. Deletion of directories with snapshots will not output
+    reason for trash move failure. (Stephen Chu via wang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/Delete.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/Delete.java
index fcb0690d8d4..6798fbee438 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/Delete.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/Delete.java
@@ -118,7 +118,11 @@ class Delete {
         } catch(FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
           throw fnfe;
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
-            throw new IOException(ioe.getMessage() + ". Consider using -skipTrash option", ioe);
+          String msg = ioe.getMessage();
+          if (ioe.getCause() != null) {
+            msg += ": " + ioe.getCause().getMessage();
+	  }
+          throw new IOException(msg + ". Consider using -skipTrash option", ioe);
         }
       }
       return success;