tramp ftp gives error on initial directory listing

[William McCallum]

Symptoms:

I have been having trouble using tramp via ftp. When I
do C-x C-f /address@hidden:, tramp asks for my password, then connects,
then gives the error message 

Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil

in the mini-buffer. I believe it connects successfully before giving
this message because the mini buffer gives messages about connecting,
then doing a cd, then attempting to list my home directory. 

I can get around this problem by repeating the C-x C-f command
with a subdirectory added, as in 

C-x C-f /address@hidden:somedirectory

I have to do this *after* I have made an initial attempt as above; it
doesn't work if I try it right away. Also, I have to add the
subdirectory; it doesn't work if I repeat the initial attempt. This
works, and lists somedirectory. After that, file browsing using dired,
and editing of files, both work as normal, even in the home directory
that initially yielded the error.

After experimenting with this bug for a while, I think that they key
is simply to try opening two different directories. For example, the
above works the same way if I reverse the two directories. The first
directory always fails and the second works. 

If I try to open a file directly, that works fine as well.

By the way, tramp using the default connection method of ssh doesn't
work at all for me. It gives a message in the minibuffer saying that
it is waiting 60s for the shell to respond, then says "login failed"
after 60s. 


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