diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 208ddb47..af0bc06f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
  for reporting a problem with duplicate recordings with the same file name
  for suggesting to implement the command line option '--vfat'
  for reporting a leftover 'summary.vdr' in vdr.5
+ for adding more error messages and line numbers when reading EPG data and info.vdr
 
 Alexander Damhuis <ad@phonedation.de>
  for reporting problems when deleting a timer that is currently recording
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4bc76632..5f945030 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3899,3 +3899,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   to Darren Salt).
 - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
 - Fixed a leftover 'summary.vdr' in vdr.1 (reported by Christoph Hermanns).
+- Added more error messages and line numbers when reading EPG data and info.vdr
+  (thanks to Peter Bieringer).
diff --git a/epg.c b/epg.c
index 4377c6d3..0bdd185c 100644
--- a/epg.c
+++ b/epg.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.c 1.37 2005/09/09 15:14:11 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.c 1.38 2005/10/09 12:57:55 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "epg.h"
@@ -285,8 +285,10 @@ bool cEvent::Read(FILE *f, cSchedule *Schedule)
   if (Schedule) {
      cEvent *Event = NULL;
      char *s;
+     int line = 0;
      cReadLine ReadLine;
      while ((s = ReadLine.Read(f)) != NULL) {
+           line++;
            char *t = skipspace(s + 1);
            switch (*s) {
              case 'E': if (!Event) {
@@ -316,8 +318,10 @@ bool cEvent::Read(FILE *f, cSchedule *Schedule)
                        break;
              case 'c': // to keep things simple we react on 'c' here
                        return true;
-             default:  if (Event && !Event->Parse(s))
+             default:  if (Event && !Event->Parse(s)) {
+                          esyslog("ERROR: EPG data problem in line %d", line);
                           return false;
+                          }
              }
            }
      esyslog("ERROR: unexpected end of file while reading EPG data");
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 9e969224..6fb76d97 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 1.120 2005/10/01 10:29:02 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.121 2005/10/09 13:09:51 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ bool cRecordingInfo::Read(FILE *f)
   if (ownEvent) {
      cReadLine ReadLine;
      char *s;
+     int line = 0;
      while ((s = ReadLine.Read(f)) != NULL) {
+           ++line;
            char *t = skipspace(s + 1);
            switch (*s) {
              case 'C': {
@@ -275,8 +277,10 @@ bool cRecordingInfo::Read(FILE *f)
                             channelID = tChannelID::FromString(t);
                        }
                        break;
-             default: if (!ownEvent->Parse(s))
+             default: if (!ownEvent->Parse(s)) {
+                         esyslog("ERROR: EPG data problem in line %d", line);
                          return false;
+                         }
                       break;
              }
            }
@@ -478,7 +482,8 @@ cRecording::cRecording(const char *FileName)
      asprintf(&InfoFileName, "%s%s", fileName, INFOFILESUFFIX);
      FILE *f = fopen(InfoFileName, "r");
      if (f) {
-        info->Read(f);
+        if (!info->Read(f))
+           esyslog("ERROR: EPG data problem in file %s", InfoFileName);
         fclose(f);
         }
      else if (errno != ENOENT)