Re: **: Re: tramp (2.1.17-pre); Nothing happens, waiting for something after "found remote shell prompt"

[Fabrice]

Hi Michael,

Michael Albinus wrote:
> It means that your bash does not work with Tramp. [...] speaking about PS1
> setting.
>
>> Though, I could have found the culprit: me (?). I set `PS1' is set in my
>> `.bashrc'. Hence, it overrides the `PS1' you set just before calling
>> `\bash'[1].
>>
>> But, does that mean I can't set my `PS1' in my `.bashrc'? Should I do it
>> soemwhere else?
>
> Tramp sets the $TERM environment variable. So you could something like
>
>   [ $TERM = "dumb" ] && PS1='$ '

FMI, is the TERM more or less free to choose? I mean: could Tramp set it to
something else, to a value only reserved for Tramp itself. It's simply that
"dumb" is used in other contexts, such as `M-x shell' under Cygwin Emacs or
`M-x eshell' under EmacsW32.

Would we wanna nicer PS1 prompts in these environments, is it possible?
Please note this is really a detail. If Tramp works, that's all what counts!


>> OK, now it almost perfectly works: I can access a lot of remote files, but 
>> not
>> all. For example, when entering in the `server' directory, I get:
>>
>> byte-code: `((test -e /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server || test -h
>> /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server) && \stat -c '(("%N") %h %u %g %X.0 %Y.0 %Z.0 
>> %s.0
>> "%A" t %i.0 -1)' /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server || echo nil)' does not return a
>> valid Lisp expression: `(("`/cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server'") 1 4294967295
>> 4294967295 1289987025.0 1289948620.0 1289948620.0 159744.0 "drwxrwxrwx" t
>> 121034239985590299.0 -1) '
>
> Hmm, it returns strange uid and gid (4294967295). You 'll see it when
> calling on the remote host
>
>   \stat -c ' %u %g' /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server
>
> What do you see when calling this:
>
>   ls -dn /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
address@hidden ~
$ \stat -c ' %u %g' /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server
 4294967295 4294967295

address@hidden ~
$ ls -dn /cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 4294967295 4294967295 159744 2010-11-19 00:03 
/cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc/server
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


>> Though, it looks weird in the `dired' buffer:
>>
>>   /plink:address@hidden:/cygdrive/d/PFlowAcc:
>>   total 172
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators None          8192 2010-11-15 17:13 ./
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators root          4096 2010-11-05 15:18 ../
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators ????????         0 2008-12-10 17:40 
>> 2008-12-10/
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 ????????       ????????         0 2007-08-16 13:36 Aspadmin/
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 ????????       ????????    159744 2010-11-17 00:03 server/
>>   drwxr-xr-x  1 fni            mkgroup_l_d   4096 2010-11-15 17:13 
>> sharedfiles/
>>
>> Do you have any idea why this is failing?
>
> That's because of not knowing uid/gid correctly.

What would be a possible solution or workaround in this case?

Best regards,
  Fabrice