diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-babel/src/babelTranslationsExtractor.ts b/packages/docusaurus-babel/src/babelTranslationsExtractor.ts
index 744f1aaa21..00ef7a9b6c 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-babel/src/babelTranslationsExtractor.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-babel/src/babelTranslationsExtractor.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
  */
 
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
-import logger from '@docusaurus/logger';
 import traverse, {type Node} from '@babel/traverse';
 import generate from '@babel/generator';
 import {
@@ -56,8 +55,10 @@ export async function extractSourceCodeFileTranslations(
     );
     return translations;
   } catch (err) {
-    logger.error`Error while attempting to extract Docusaurus translations from source code file at path=${sourceCodeFilePath}.`;
-    throw err;
+    throw new Error(
+      `Error while attempting to extract Docusaurus translations from source code file at path=${sourceCodeFilePath}.`,
+      {cause: err as Error},
+    );
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/globUtils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/globUtils.ts
index 305b3ff383..c26e84ab65 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/globUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/globUtils.ts
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ export const isTranslatableSourceFile: (filePath: string) => boolean = (() => {
 export async function globTranslatableSourceFiles(
   patterns: string[],
 ): Promise<string[]> {
-  const filePaths = await safeGlobby(patterns);
+  const filePaths = await safeGlobby(patterns, {
+    absolute: true,
+  });
   return filePaths.filter(isTranslatableSourceFile);
 }