Please describe the problem.

May be I was simply wrong to assume that if I disable all sync'ing for all the repos, assistant wouldn't try to contact those remote hosts. But it still does

In the logs, since no time stamp per each line, hard to say either recent ones just continuation of previous entries, or new ones:

[[

[2015-05-18 10:29:39 EDT] Watcher: Performing startup scan (started...) ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ssh: connect to host vagus.cns.dartmouth.edu port 22: No route to hostM ... ]]

and in another

[[ fsck xppaut_6.11b+1.dfsg.orig.tar.gz ok fsck xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.6.2+git44-ge28575b.orig.tar.gz ok fsck xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.99.917.orig.tar.gz (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) ** No known copies exist of python-mne_0.8.3+dfsg.orig.tar.gz git-annex: fsck: 1 failed

(process:3954): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Write failed: Broken pipeM

(process:20140): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(process:20178): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. git-annex: Daemon is already running.

(process:29035): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(process:29184): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(process:30127): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(process:30817): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Write failed: Broken pipeM ]]

that host (vagus) is RIP (need to remove from syncs) btw which are falling into daemon.log.1 not .log

What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

5.20150509+gitga10e45d-1~ndall+1