### Please describe the problem. See transcript. Didn't bisect fully but 6.20160128-g599a3ba seems to work ok, 6.20160211-g479a094 already dies off [[!format sh """ datalads-imac:~ yoh$ git annex version git-annex version: 6.20160221-g3d1895e ... datalads-imac:~ yoh$ mkdir -p /tmp/123; cd /tmp/123; git init; git annex init; Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/123/.git/ init ok (recording state in git...) datalads-imac:123 yoh$ rm -f /tmp/pipe; mkfifo /tmp/pipe; cat /tmp/pipe | git -c receive.autogc=false annex addurl -c annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt --with-files --json --batch {"command":"addurl","file":"1.png","note":"downloading http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/banner.png ..."error: git-annex died of signal 4 # now with --debug datalads-imac:123 yoh$ rm -f /tmp/pipe; mkfifo /tmp/pipe; cat /tmp/pipe | git -c receive.autogc=false annex addurl -c annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt --with-files --json --batch --debug [2016-02-23 08:32:49.160686] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","-c","annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt","show-ref","git-annex"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.167372] process done ExitSuccess [2016-02-23 08:32:49.167479] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","-c","annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt","show-ref","--hash","refs/heads/git-annex"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.172795] process done ExitSuccess [2016-02-23 08:32:49.173039] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","-c","annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt","log","refs/heads/git-annex..b2892e67682c5240dadb5d439da810edbdb882df","-n1","--pretty=%H"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.178586] process done ExitSuccess [2016-02-23 08:32:49.179085] chat: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","-c","annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt","cat-file","--batch"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.183985] read: quvi ["--version"] {"command":"addurl","file":"1.png","note":"downloading http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/banner.png ..."[2016-02-23 08:32:49.255949] call: curl ["-s","-f","-L","-C","-","-#","-o","/private/tmp/123/.git/annex/tmp/URL-s25319--http&c%%www.onerussian.com%tmp%banner.png","http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/banner.png","--user-agent","git-annex/6.20160221-g3d1895e"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.302577] process done ExitSuccess [2016-02-23 08:32:49.303332] chat: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","-c","annex.largefiles=exclude=*.txt","check-attr","-z","--stdin","annex.backend","annex.numcopies","annex.largefiles","--"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.305653] read: git ["--version"] [2016-02-23 08:32:49.310314] process done ExitSuccess error: git-annex died of signal 4 """]] [[!meta author=yoh]] > [[done]]; this was indeed due to libmagic, and I've fixed it using brew > --build-bottle to make a portable one. Then had to disable the build > flag. --[[Joey]]