Re: sftp access fails on Emacs master (Avahi?)

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:47:55 +0100 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>>   tramp-signal-hook-function(dbus-error ("The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was
>> not provided by any .service files"))
>>   signal(dbus-error ("The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any
>> .service files"))
>>   dbus-handle-event((dbus-event :system 3 3 "org.freedesktop.DBus" nil nil
>> nil dbus-call-method-handler "The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not
>> provided by any .service files"))
>>   funcall-interactively(dbus-handle-event (dbus-event :system 3 3
>> "org.freedesktop.DBus" nil nil nil dbus-call-method-handler "The name
>> org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files"))
>>   call-interactively(dbus-handle-event nil [(dbus-event :system 3 3
>> "org.freedesktop.DBus" nil nil nil dbus-call-method-handler "The name
>> org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files")])
>>   command-execute(dbus-handle-event nil [(dbus-event :system 3 3
>> "org.freedesktop.DBus" nil nil nil dbus-call-method-handler "The name
>> org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files")] t)
>>   read-event(nil nil 0.001)
>>   dbus-call-method(:system "org.freedesktop.Avahi" "/org/freedesktop/DBus"
>> "org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer" "Ping")
>>   dbus-ping(:system "org.freedesktop.Avahi")
>>   zeroconf-init("local")
>
> Could you pls check whether the appended patch helps?

Thanks.  I applied the patch and rebuilt but I still get the same
failure with the same backtrace and no Tramp debug output.  I also tried
`M-x tramp-cleanup-all-connections' (though the only entry in
~/.emacs.d/tramp was `(nil)'), but to no effect.

Steve Berman