Improve some exception messaging and comments

[srawlins]

I've been fighting some exceptions, maybe with a badly configured flutter checkout or something, and made these little changes while working through it.

• The 'duplicate-file' warning did not specify at all why it failed to write.
• The environment variables might be important to include in the messaging, on a failed process call, in case they contain interesting things like maybe FLUTTER_ROOT.

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