### Please describe the problem. Rebooted my laptop recently (after dunno how long of uptime) and annex assistant was shut off in previous uptime, but this time decided to leave it running. spotted that laptop is hot today to see that git-annex is busy. And I am not sure what it is really doing: top says 3087 yoh 30 10 520700 21084 14748 S 100.0 0.1 80:50.60 /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon [[!format sh """ $> tail -20 /proc/3087/cwd/.git/annex/daemon.log Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: Connection timed out fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: Connection timed out fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. [2015-03-28 20:27:53 EDT] main: Syncing with debandy_Vault hostname: Name or service not known hostname: Name or service not known To ssh://yoh@git-annex-andy-yoh_.2Fmedia.2FVault.2Fannex/media/Vault/annex/ 8c181af..a0b0bd6 git-annex -> synced/git-annex 8352761..537d4a6 master -> synced/master """]] in webapp I saw it struggling to connect to vagus which is offline, I turned it off, then reanabled syncing to above yoh@git-annex-andy-yoh_.2Fmedia.2FVault.2Fannex . I don't know if annex was busier or not before, but it is 100% busy now, but nothing seems to be done -- no traffic, no changing fd's for that annex process strace shows busy reading from fd 24: [[!format sh """ [pid 3110] read(24, "", 8096) = 0 [pid 3110] read(24, "", 8096) = 0 [pid 3110] read(24, "", 8096) = 0 [pid 3110] read(24, "", 8096) = 0 """]] $> ls -l /proc/3087/fd/24 lr-x------ 1 yoh yoh 64 Mar 28 20:31 /proc/3087/fd/24 -> pipe:[794930] so what could it be doing? [[!format sh """ 2807 yoh 20 0 693M 110M 36948 S 1.4 0.7 11:15.32 ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex assistant --startdelay=5s 3359 yoh 39 19 20996 3412 3096 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 │ ├─ git --git-dir=.git --work-tree=. check-attr -z --stdin annex.backend annex.numcopies -- 3140 yoh 20 0 21128 3504 3188 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 │ ├─ git --git-dir=.git --work-tree=. check-ignore -z --stdin --verbose --non-matching 3117 yoh 20 0 693M 110M 36948 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex assistant --startdelay=5s 3108 yoh 20 0 693M 110M 36948 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.15 │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex assistant --startdelay=5s 3087 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 S 97.9 0.1 1h29:16 │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon 24361 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 │ │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon 19799 yoh 30 10 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 │ │ ├─ ssh 19440 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 │ │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon 3222 yoh 30 10 27368 5796 3456 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 │ │ ├─ git --git-dir=.git --work-tree=. cat-file --batch 3110 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 R 97.5 0.1 1h29:10 │ │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon 3090 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.98 │ │ ├─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon 3089 yoh 30 10 508M 21084 14748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 │ │ └─ /usr/bin/git-annex remotedaemon """]] how could I figure out what is doing??? meanwhile I have just sent STOP signal to 3087 ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 5.20150327+git27-g6af24b6-1 ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log # End of transcript or log. """]]