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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+`git annex assistant --autostop` stops shutting down processes after encountering the first non-existant repo listed in `.config/git-annex/autostart`, leaving other processes running.
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+- add several existing repos to `.config/git-annex/autostart`
+- somewhere in the middle, add a non-existant path
+- run `git annex assistant --autostart` (this just skips the nonexistant repo interestingly)
+- run `git annex assistant --autostop` (this fails on the nonexistant repo and doesn't continue with the others)
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+```
+# on Linux
+❯ git annex version
+git-annex version: 10.20230329-ge6a337e8e
+```
+
+
+### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
+
+I love it! 🤩