Please describe the problem.
$ git annex assistant
git-annex: S3 bucket not configured
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
git-annex.linux.6.20180914 - the one i had gotten after autoupdate
Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
yes
It seems to me this must depend on the repository that you have the assistant configured to run in. If that repository has a S3 remote set up in the git config, but is somehow missing the bucket name configuration, that would explain this error message.
Or, the S3 remote in question might have been configured with autoenable=true, so git-annex tries to enabled it on a new clone?
So please show your repository's .git/config file, and also the output of this command run in the repository:
git show git-annex:remote.log | grep autoenable | cut -d" " -f1