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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="spwhitton"
+ ip="163.1.167.50"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2012-12-06T15:13:02Z"
+ content="""
+Sure, I've added --debug to the assistant autostart file and am running `git annex --debug drop`.  For the first type of error given above I get output like
+
+    [2012-12-06 15:08:50 GMT] read: git [\"--git-dir=/home/swhitton/var/.git\",\"--work-tree=/home/swhitton/var\",\"ls-files\",\"--cached\",\"-z\",\"--\",\".\"]
+    [2012-12-06 15:08:50 GMT] chat: git [\"--git-dir=/home/swhitton/var/.git\",\"--work-tree=/home/swhitton/var\",\"check-attr\",\"-z\",\"--stdin\",\"annex.backend\",\"annex.numcopies\",\"--\"]
+    
+    git-annex: fd:10: hGetLine: end of file
+    failed
+
+and for the \"resource vanished\" errors I get no further output.  There is also nothing further in `daemon.log`.
+"""]]