Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

How can I catch more detailed information about a reindexing error or when reindexing is stuck?

The size of the catalog is about 70k products.
When reindexing sometimes it turns out Could not acquire lock for index:catalog_category_product and Could not acquire lock for index:catalog_product_category or only stuck in INSERT INTO catalog_category_product_index_store2_tmp ('category_id', 'product_id', 'position', 'i.. (I got this from SHOW PROCESS LIST phpmyadmin).

there is no more detailed information about the error in the log files,
Are there ways to get more detailed information about the error or stuck?