diff --git a/src/node/interface_ui.cpp b/src/node/interface_ui.cpp
index 4f4d240d1b5..c9dcd7a7fb9 100644
--- a/src/node/interface_ui.cpp
+++ b/src/node/interface_ui.cpp
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ bool InitError(const bilingual_str& str, const std::vector<std::string>& details
     // functions which provide error details are ones that run during early init
     // before the GUI uiInterface is registered, so there's no point passing
     // main messages and details separately to uiInterface yet.
-    return InitError(details.empty() ? str : strprintf(Untranslated("%s:\n%s"), str, MakeUnorderedList(details)));
+    return InitError(details.empty() ? str : str + Untranslated(strprintf(":\n%s", MakeUnorderedList(details))));
 }
 
 void InitWarning(const bilingual_str& str)
diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 074c090f1ea..b3470ece491 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -6142,7 +6142,7 @@ SnapshotCompletionResult ChainstateManager::MaybeCompleteSnapshotValidation()
 
         auto rename_result = m_snapshot_chainstate->InvalidateCoinsDBOnDisk();
         if (!rename_result) {
-            user_error = strprintf(Untranslated("%s\n%s"), user_error, util::ErrorString(rename_result));
+            user_error += Untranslated("\n") + util::ErrorString(rename_result);
         }
 
         GetNotifications().fatalError(user_error);