diff --git a/mars/oscar/backends/mars/pool.py b/mars/oscar/backends/mars/pool.py
index 2ab4d200ca..ea383d8772 100644
--- a/mars/oscar/backends/mars/pool.py
+++ b/mars/oscar/backends/mars/pool.py
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@
 import os
 import signal
 import sys
-from enum import Enum
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from types import TracebackType
 from typing import List
 
-from ....utils import get_next_port
+from ....utils import get_next_port, dataslots
 from ..config import ActorPoolConfig
 from ..message import CreateActorMessage
 from ..pool import MainActorPoolBase, SubActorPoolBase, _register_message_handler
@@ -59,9 +60,13 @@ def _mp_kill(self):
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-class SubpoolStatus(Enum):
-    succeeded = 0
-    failed = 1
+@dataslots
+@dataclass
+class SubpoolStatus:
+    # for status, 0 is succeeded, 1 is failed
+    status: int = None
+    error: BaseException = None
+    traceback: TracebackType = None
 
 
 @_register_message_handler
@@ -136,8 +141,9 @@ async def wait_sub_pools_ready(cls,
         processes = []
         for task in create_pool_tasks:
             process, status = await task
-            if status == SubpoolStatus.failed:
-                raise RuntimeError('Start sub pool failed.')
+            if status.status == 1:
+                # start sub pool failed
+                raise status.error.with_traceback(status.traceback)
             processes.append(process)
         return processes
 
@@ -185,7 +191,7 @@ async def _create_sub_pool(
             actor_config: ActorPoolConfig,
             process_index: int,
             status: multiprocessing.Queue):
-        process_status = SubpoolStatus.succeeded
+        process_status = None
         try:
             env = actor_config.get_pool_config(process_index)['env']
             if env:
@@ -194,9 +200,11 @@ async def _create_sub_pool(
                 'actor_pool_config': actor_config,
                 'process_index': process_index
             })
+            process_status = SubpoolStatus(status=0)
             await pool.start()
         except:  # noqa: E722  # nosec  # pylint: disable=bare-except
-            process_status = SubpoolStatus.failed
+            _, error, tb = sys.exc_info()
+            process_status = SubpoolStatus(status=1, error=error, traceback=tb)
             raise
         finally:
             status.put(process_status)
diff --git a/mars/oscar/backends/mars/tests/test_pool.py b/mars/oscar/backends/mars/tests/test_pool.py
index 4c3123c15e..fc5425ee54 100644
--- a/mars/oscar/backends/mars/tests/test_pool.py
+++ b/mars/oscar/backends/mars/tests/test_pool.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ async def test_fail_when_create_subpool():
                    env={'my_env': '1'})
     _add_pool_conf(config, 2, my_label, 'unixsocket:///2', f'127.0.0.1:{port}')
 
-    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+    with pytest.raises(OSError):
         await MainActorPool.create({'actor_pool_config': config})
 
 
diff --git a/mars/oscar/backends/test/pool.py b/mars/oscar/backends/test/pool.py
index 8e9e49b5bb..7c0fae2fdf 100644
--- a/mars/oscar/backends/test/pool.py
+++ b/mars/oscar/backends/test/pool.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ async def _create_sub_pool(
             'process_index': process_index
         })
         await pool.start()
-        status.put(SubpoolStatus.succeeded)
+        status.put(SubpoolStatus(0))
         await pool.join()
 
     async def kill_sub_pool(self, process: multiprocessing.Process,