diff --git a/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_5_0d14dd2c8d94a81ffd5aae07e927344f._comment b/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_5_0d14dd2c8d94a81ffd5aae07e927344f._comment
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.2"
+ subject="comment 5"
+ date="2014-07-16T18:21:24Z"
+ content="""
+A full log in an empty repo of the crash: 
+
+<pre>
+[2014-07-16 14:00:53 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"git-annex\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"--hash\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"log\",\"refs/heads/git-annex..9c07d1385e80dbc6044814357e9097fd231b8c99\",\"-n1\",\"--pretty=%H\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"cat-file\",\"--batch\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] logging to C:\WINDOWS\TT\.git\annex\daemon.log
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] main: starting assistant version 5.20140714-gf892329
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"git-annex\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"show-ref\",\"--hash\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"log\",\"refs/heads/git-annex..9c07d1385e80dbc6044814357e9097fd231b8c99\",\"-n1\",\"--pretty=%H\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"cat-file\",\"--batch\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--stage\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Cronner: You should enable consistency checking to protect your data. 
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] SanityCheckerStartup: no index file; restaging
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--stage\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] chat: git-annex [\"remotedaemon\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-tree\",\"--full-tree\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"refs/heads/git-annex\",\"uuid.log\",\"remote.log\",\"trust.log\",\"group.log\",\"numcopies.log\",\"schedule.log\",\"preferred-content.log\",\"required-content.log\",\"group-preferred-content.log\"]
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Merger: watching C:\WINDOWS\TT\.git\refs
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] TransferWatcher: watching for transfers
+(scanning...) [2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Watcher: Performing startup scan
+[2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] read: git [\"--git-dir=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\\.git\",\"--work-tree=C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\",\"-c\",\"core.bare=false\",\"ls-files\",\"--deleted\",\"-z\",\"--\",\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TT\"]
+(started...) [2014-07-16 14:00:54 Atlantic Standard Time] Watcher: watching .
+
+
+git-annex: <stdin>: hGetLine: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor)
+failed
+git-annex: assistant: 1 failed
+</pre>
+
+The two blank lines just before the crash seem to be significant somehow; they are not output at the beginning, so must occur just before it crashes.
+
+"""]]
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_6_20a420680058f84a8cbd43682957fe7b._comment b/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_6_20a420680058f84a8cbd43682957fe7b._comment
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.2"
+ subject="comment 6"
+ date="2014-07-16T18:38:51Z"
+ content="""
+It appears to be the remoteResponderThread crashing (based on adding debugging around all hGetLine call sites).
+"""]]
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_7_1514739ba9885917d03597dcc6aa7bec._comment b/doc/bugs/Windows_daemon_silently_dies/comment_7_1514739ba9885917d03597dcc6aa7bec._comment
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.2"
+ subject="comment 7"
+ date="2014-07-16T20:18:50Z"
+ content="""
+Well, it seems not to be the RemoteControl thread after all. I made that thread start the remotedaemon and then not read from it at all, and the crash still happens. Also, the remotedaemon itself seems to run forever ok.
+
+(This is sort of a relief, because it should not be possible for a crash of a named thread like RemoteControl to take down the whole assistant!)
+
+The hGetLine must be being called by some other library function.
+
+Hmm... Could it perhaps be waitForTermination? On windows that ends up calling getLine in a loop. A 600 second loop!
+
+Update: Seems so. With a 60 second loop, it crashes after 60 seconds. With the 2 newlines happening just before.
+
+Also, it makes sense now why this is a new crash. Before the assistant ran with stdio connected to the terminal, but recently on windows it got hooked up to the debug log, and stdin is closed now.
+
+I still don't understand where the 2 newlines come from (possibly output by something while git-annex is crashing?).. But have confirmed I've fixed the problem now.
+"""]]