[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2017-02-07T17:48:05Z"
 content="""
These seem to be two separate git repositories and it's only crashing in
one of them. 

Perhaps annex.pidlock is set in the repository where it works, and not in
the other repository?

git-annex init probes to see if it can set a lock, and if not, enables
annex.pidlock. Since 5.20151116.
"""]]