diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index deeef433d..c5f2e5bad 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.11.1",
     "go-ipfs-dep": "0.4.19",
-    "interface-ipfs-core": "~0.101.0",
+    "interface-ipfs-core": "~0.101.1",
     "ipfsd-ctl": "~0.42.0",
     "nock": "^10.0.2",
     "stream-equal": "^1.1.1"
diff --git a/src/files-regular/refs-local-readable-stream.js b/src/files-regular/refs-local-readable-stream.js
index 0d8bc15bf..09fddde1d 100644
--- a/src/files-regular/refs-local-readable-stream.js
+++ b/src/files-regular/refs-local-readable-stream.js
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ module.exports = (send) => {
     send({ path: 'refs/local', qs: opts }, (err, stream) => {
       if (err) { return pt.destroy(err) }
 
+      stream.once('error', (err) => pt.destroy(err))
+
       pump(stream, through.obj(function (r, enc, cb) {
         cb(null, { ref: r.Ref, err: r.Err })
       }), pt)
diff --git a/src/files-regular/refs-readable-stream.js b/src/files-regular/refs-readable-stream.js
index 4c9ae2d1f..b5cf69c48 100644
--- a/src/files-regular/refs-readable-stream.js
+++ b/src/files-regular/refs-readable-stream.js
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ module.exports = (send) => {
     send({ path: 'refs', args, qs: opts }, (err, stream) => {
       if (err) { return pt.destroy(err) }
 
+      stream.once('error', (err) => pt.destroy(err))
+
       pump(stream, through.obj(function (r, enc, cb) {
         cb(null, { ref: r.Ref, err: r.Err })
       }), pt)
diff --git a/src/utils/stream-to-value.js b/src/utils/stream-to-value.js
index fa7068d46..d28fd6130 100644
--- a/src/utils/stream-to-value.js
+++ b/src/utils/stream-to-value.js
@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@ const concat = require('concat-stream')
   Concatenate a stream to a single value.
 */
 function streamToValue (response, callback) {
+  let data
   pump(
     response,
-    concat((data) => callback(null, data)),
-    (err) => {
-      if (err) {
-        callback(err)
-      }
-    })
+    concat((d) => { data = d }),
+    (err) => callback(err, data)
+  )
 }
 
 module.exports = streamToValue