[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2017-02-20T18:50:18Z" content=""" Probably wget is just failing to download the url sometimes. Eg, `git annex addurl http://localhost/dne` fails with the same not useful output. wget is run with -q, which is the only way to turn off all its informational messages, but unfortunately that also turns off display of HTTP error messages. Using -nv instead of -q would display HTTP errors, but also 1 extra line of output once the download is complete. I suppose that's worth the trade-off. """]]