### Please describe the problem. Following steps from http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/quickstart/ does not get past the first screen. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? * On a nearly fresh Lubuntu system, nearly fresh account, Lubuntu session, run `git-annex` from the start menu. * Opens firefox, in `Create a git-annex repository` select my `~/Documents` folder, press `Make Repository`. * Expected: a new, different page opens. * Observed: the same page opens, only difference the path displayed is `/home/mylogin/Documents`. Pressing `Make Repository` again shows the same page again. I couldn't find any logs at the time. Now I see that they are in .git/annex/daemon.log but content from that time is already gone. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? A fresh Ubuntu 14.04 (actually Lubuntu but this shouldn't change anything, right ?), create a user, login. LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy git-annex git-annex: Installed: 5.20140412ubuntu1 Candidate: 5.20140412ubuntu1 Version table: *** 5.20140412ubuntu1 0 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # No command line in bug occurrence. This is the transcript of the workaround I found. # Actually, the PC was rebooted then I went command line. cd ~/Documents git status fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree # oh I see it's a bare repo git annex add . add (my file names... one line for each) ok (Recording state in git...) Now the webapp seems to run okay, I can see many pages, schedule checks, etc. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log -> Ok but log shows only events after I manually dit git annex add. [2014-06-08 14:28:46 CEST] main: starting assistant version 5.20140412ubuntu1 [2014-06-08 14:28:46 CEST] Cronner: You should enable consistency checking to protect your data. dbus failed; falling back to mtab polling (ClientError {clientErrorMessage = "runClient: unable to determine DBUS address", clientErrorFatal = True}) (scanning...) [2014-06-08 14:28:46 CEST] Watcher: Performing startup scan (started...) [2014-06-08 14:28:47 CEST] Committer: Adding (myfiles) add (my files...) ok [2014-06-08 14:32:51 CEST] Committer: Committing changes to git [2014-06-08 14:34:12 CEST] Committer: Committing changes to git [2014-06-08 14:34:13 CEST] Committer: Adding (myfiles) ok (Recording state in git...) (Recording state in git...) (Recording state in git...) (Recording state in git...) (Recording state in git...) add (myfile) ok add (myfile) [2014-06-08 14:34:13 CEST] Committer: Committing changes to git [2014-06-08 14:42:48 CEST] Cronner: Consistency check in progress fsck (myfile) (checksum...) ok # End of transcript or log. """]] # Question: cat /etc/xdg/autostart/git-annex.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Version=1.0 Name=Git Annex Assistant Comment=Autostart Terminal=false Exec=/usr/bin/git-annex assistant --autostart Categories= Should there be a git-annex process whenever I log in even if I don't launch the webapp ? I can check that on next login. At the moment there is "git-annex webapp" and several child processes.