### Please describe the problem. Using the latest build, when the agent is started, it works ... and works ... and works ... until it silently dies at some point. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? I hope this will reproduce: * Create a remote with an invalid host which is not reachable * Start git-annex-autostart.vbs * Wait 5-30 minutes until no git.exe/git-annex.exe are visible any more in task manager (for my current test it took 10 minutes) * Inspect the logs ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? $ git annex version git-annex version: 5.20140715-g622a376 build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav tahoe glacier ddar hook external local repository version: 5 supported repository version: 5 upgrade supported from repository versions: 2 3 4 ### Please provide any additional information below. I hope/think that this is also related to what I wrote in: https://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Restricting_SSH_+_supply_key Here the assistant apparently takes the wrong ssh.exe (from bin/ instead than cmd/ directory). This results in the fact that for some reason .ssh/config is not used. In any case, the host alias can not be resolved. At some point git annex assistant seems to die because of that, but I am not sure. In any case, a non-reachable server should not be the cause that the assistant dies. The last entries of daemon.log are always: git-annex: : hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor) failed git-annex: assistant: 1 failed So I think this is the cause. [[!format sh """ [2014-07-14 21:21:19 Pacific Daylight Time] main: starting assistant version 5.20140715-g622a376 [2014-07-14 21:21:19 Pacific Daylight Time] Cronner: You should enable consistency checking to protect your data. [2014-07-14 21:21:24 Pacific Daylight Time] TransferScanner: Syncing with 192.168.200.121 (scanning...) [2014-07-14 21:21:25 Pacific Daylight Time] Watcher: Performing startup scan ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. sssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. sssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. (started...) [2014-07-14 21:21:43 Pacific Daylight Time] Committer: Committing changes to git [2014-07-14 21:21:43 Pacific Daylight Time] Pusher: Syncing with 192.168.200.121 ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: Could notssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. [2014-07-14 21:22:03 Pacific Daylight Time] Committer: Committing changes to git fatal: Unable to create 'c:\data\annex\.git/index.lock': File exists. If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git process is running and remove the file manually to continue. fatal: Unable to create 'c:\data\annex\.git/index.lock': File exists. If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git process is running and remove the file manually to continue. Committer crashed: failed to read sha from git write-tree [2014-07-14 21:22:03 Pacific Daylight Time] Committer: warning Committer crashed: failed to read sha from git write-tree ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known ssh: Could not resolve hostname annex: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Network.Socket.ByteString.send: does not exist (No such file or directory) Network.Socket.ByteString.send: does not exist (No such file or directory) (Recording state in git...) (Recording state in git...) git-annex: : hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor) failed git-annex: assistant: 1 failed """]] [[!tag confirmed]] > [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]