Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); Can't open files on Linux/sparc host

[Michael Albinus]

Magnus Henoch <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

> I'm trying to open a file on a computer running Linux/sparc (Debian
> testing), but I get this backtrace:
>
> I've tried to dig into the code, and it seems to me that
> find-file-noselect-1 expects the buffer passed to it to have
> buffer-file-name set to something sensible, but in this case it is
> nil.  Not sure if that is relevant, though.

Maybe. But first there is something else to investigate:

> [3. *debug tramp/sshx serafim* --- text/plain]

[...]

> 13:51:24 tramp-send-command (6) # tramp_perl_encode_with_module < 
> /jabber/etc/ejabberd-1.1.1-serafim.cfg 2>/dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $? 
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # process-name nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # process-buffer nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # process-name nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-get-connection-property (8) # check-remote-echo nil
> 13:51:24 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
> tramp_exit_status 127
>
> ///45f1be591a53217c38037ee49981349f

Tramp has called the shell function tramp_perl_encode_with_module,
without sending it to the remote shell first. That fails, of course.

There has been a lot of rewriting, before Tramp 2.1.7 was
released. You're using 2.1.6-pre, a version before this rewriting
happened (according to the traces).

It might be hard to puzzle the Tramp files as you have used
them. Could you, please, upgrade to Tramp 2.1.7 (or better to the
recent CVS version)? Then it might be simpler to catch the bug.

Thanks, and best regards, Michael.