I recently noticed that a file I thought I had on one of my repositories was missing, so I decided to get it:

chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (from data0...) 
git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from data1...) 
git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from quiethost...) 
ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from zenhost...) 
SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624
         32,243 100%    7.69MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)
(checksum...) ok
(recording state in git...)


chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pdata/1/
total 468K
drwxr-sr-x 2 chymera wheel 4.0K Nov  2  2017 .
drwxr-sr-x 3 chymera wheel 4.0K Mar 20  2017 ..
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 422K Mar 20  2017 2dseq
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel  356 Mar 20  2017 id
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel  420 Mar 20  2017 methreco
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel  349 Mar 20  2017 procs
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 9.1K Mar 20  2017 reco
-rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 8.3K Nov  2  2017 visu_pars


chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624
chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pdata/1/^C
chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex direct
chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624


chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex drop 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
drop 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (locking data0...) (lockcontent failed) (checking data0...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
(locking data1...) (lockcontent failed) (checking data1...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
(locking quiethost...) (lockcontent failed) (checking quiethost...) ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused
(locking zenhost...) ok
(recording state in git...)


chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (from data0...) 
git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from data1...) 
git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from quiethost...) 
ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]

  rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer
(from zenhost...) 
SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624
         32,243 100%   30.75MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1)
(checksum...) ok
(recording state in git...)

chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624

Even after git-annex states it fetched it, the symlink is still broken.

On my other remote, however, it's perfectly fine:

chymera@zenhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $  ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 May 23  2018 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624