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+### 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 15-30 minutes until no git.exe/git-annex.exe are visible any more in task manager
+* 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: <stdin>: 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: <stdin>: hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)
+failed
+git-annex: assistant: 1 failed 
+"""]]