diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py b/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py
index 2ffe0d5f668e..d1b6d92b1689 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py
@@ -261,11 +261,13 @@ def _run_checked_subprocess(cls, command, tex, *, cwd=None):
             raise RuntimeError(
                 '{prog} was not able to process the following string:\n'
                 '{tex!r}\n\n'
-                'Here is the full report generated by {prog}:\n'
+                'Here is the full command invocation and its output:\n\n'
+                '{format_command}\n\n'
                 '{exc}\n\n'.format(
                     prog=command[0],
+                    format_command=cbook._pformat_subprocess(command),
                     tex=tex.encode('unicode_escape'),
-                    exc=exc.output.decode('utf-8'))) from exc
+                    exc=exc.output.decode('utf-8'))) from None
         _log.debug(report)
         return report