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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+Started to happen recently (0924):
+
+```shell
+(git)smaug:/mnt/datasets/datalad/ci/git-annex/builds/2022/09[master]git
+$> git grep -l 'Couldn.t match expected type '
+cron-20220924/build-windows.yaml-788-e26581b6-failed/1_build-package (1).txt
+cron-20220924/build-windows.yaml-788-e26581b6-failed/build-package/18_Build git-annex.txt
+cron-20220925/build-windows.yaml-790-e26581b6-failed/1_build-package (1).txt
+cron-20220925/build-windows.yaml-790-e26581b6-failed/build-package/18_Build git-annex.txt
+cron-20220926/build-windows.yaml-791-40917e42-failed/1_build-package (1).txt
+cron-20220926/build-windows.yaml-791-40917e42-failed/build-package/18_Build git-annex.txt
+pr-133/build-windows.yaml-789-06e70ac7-failed/1_build-package (1).txt
+pr-133/build-windows.yaml-789-06e70ac7-failed/build-package/18_Build git-annex.txt
+```
+
+
+
+```
+Annex\PidLock.hs:130:48: error:
+ * Couldn't match expected type `IO a' with actual type `Annex a'
+ * In the second argument of `($)', namely `a r'
+ In the expression: liftIO $ a r
+ In an equation for runsGitAnnexChildProcessViaGit':
+ runsGitAnnexChildProcessViaGit' r a = liftIO $ a r
+ * Relevant bindings include
+ a :: Repo -> Annex a (bound at Annex\PidLock.hs:130:35)
+ runsGitAnnexChildProcessViaGit' :: Repo
+ -> (Repo -> Annex a) -> Annex a
+ (bound at Annex\PidLock.hs:130:1)
+ |
+130 | runsGitAnnexChildProcessViaGit' r a = liftIO $ a r
+
+ | ^^^
+
+
+Warning: Failed to decode module interface:
+ D:\a\git-annex\git-annex\.stack-work\dist\274b403a\build\git-annex\git-annex-tmp\Annex.hi
+ Decoding failure: Invalid magic: e49ceb0f
+...
+```