bug#20662: 25.0.50; Remote copy through Dired fails

[Michael Albinus]

Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org> writes:

> Hello,

Hi Manuel,

> Every time I try to copy from remote to local I get this error:
>
>     file-error Setting current directory No such file or directory
>
> This is happening only when I'm copying a file in some nested directory
> on the remote machine. For instance, if I try to copy
> /home/admin/bin/foo to my local directory, it works. But if I try to
> copy /home/admin/bin/foo/bar I get the above mentioned error.
>
> Some extra info:
>
> -  with emacs -Q copying files from remote to local works;
> -  with emacs -q I get the same error;
> -  copying from local to remote works every time;
> -  I am using Emacs 25.0.50.1 (build: 45c92dd) on Debian unstable;
> -  I listed (through C-h m) the active minor modes both with my init.el
>    and with emacs -Q right before starting to copy the remote file:
>    they are the same.
>
> After some debugging, I nailed down the issue to this line of
> dired-copy-file-recursive:
>
> (copy-file from to ok-flag preserve-time)

Honestly, I'm not able to reproduce your problem with the given
description. Could you, please, give a recipe how to see it?

Obviously, the recipe shall start with "emacs -Q". But as you are saying
it works then, I will need also a minimal init.el and/or .emacs from
your config, which triggers the error.

> Kind regards,
> Manuel Uberti

Best regards Michael.