Re: tramp (2.1.6-pre); ssh problems from cygwin to Linux

[emacs user]

> "emacs user" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > ok, done.  the only output is:
> > 0
> > printed in the echo area after I give the above command.  the status
> > of the file after this command is changed to:
> >
> >   -rw-------   1 me None       30 Mar  1 00:00 .dvipsrc
>
> Strange. Exactly as it should do.
>
> Could you, please, apply the appended patch to tramp.el (recent CVS
> version)? It adds some traces.
>
> Then you should rerun your test copying the file with Tramp. When it
> fails again, I'ld like to see the *Messages* buffer.
>
> Best regards, Michael.

ok, here is the messages buffer.  I also did make distclean and then 
recompiled from scratch.  perhaps you can see some problem in the 
compilation record.  thanks!  I really hope all this is not due to me doing 
something silly...   Eli

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Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `computer'
Tramp: Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...
Reading directory /ssh:address@hidden:/home/me/...
Tramp: Inserting directory `ls -al /ssh:address@hidden:/home/me/', wildcard no, 
fulldir yes
Reading directory /ssh:address@hidden:/home/me/...done
Mark saved where search started
Overwrite `/home/me/.dvipsrc'? [Type yn!q or C-h]
Wrote /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/me/LOCALS~1/Temp/tramp.368VLc
Tramp: Inserting local temp file 
`/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/me/LOCALS~1/Temp/tramp.368VLc'...done
Wrote /home/me/.dvipsrc
Tramp: command `touch -t 200106100236.39 /home/me/.dvipsrc´ rc 2
Tramp: buffer `´
Copy [-p] failed for 1 of 1 file--type ? for details ((.dvipsrc))

--------------------------
address@hidden ~/.emacs.d/tramp]$ make distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs ../info/dir
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/contrib'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/contrib'
for a in lisp texi contrib; do                  \
   make -C $a distclean;                        \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs
rm -f password.el
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/contrib'
rm -f .\#* \#* .*~ *~ *.aux *.cp *.cps *.diff *.dvi *.elc *.fn *.fns *.html 
*.info *.ky *.log *.pg *.tmp *.toc *.tp *.vr *.vrs
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/contrib'
rm -f Makefile contrib/Makefile lisp/Makefile lisp/trampver.el texi/Makefile 
texi/trampver.texi MANIFEST *.tar.gz*
rm -f -r autom4te.cache info
address@hidden ~/.emacs.d/tramp]$ make maintainer-clean
make: *** No rule to make target `maintainer-clean'.  Stop.
address@hidden ~/.emacs.d/tramp]$ cd ~/.emacs.d/tramp; setenv EMACS /bin/emacs; 
autoconf; ./configure --with-contrib ; make EMACS=/bin/emacs all; chmod -R 
go+rX ~/.emacs.d/tramp;
configure: Tramp 2.1.6-pre
checking for gmake... no
checking for make... make
checking for reasonable make version... ok
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for /bin/emacs... yes
checking for /bin/emacs flavor... emacs
checking for /bin/emacs version... ok
checking for base64.el... ok
checking for format-spec.el... ok
checking for md5.el... ok
checking for password.el... linked to contrib directory
checking for uudecode.el... ok
checking for run-at-time.el... ok
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for reasonable makeinfo version... ok
checking for texi2dvi... texi2dvi
checking for reasonable texi2dvi version... nok
configure: WARNING: texi2dvi doesn't work, check $TEXINPUTS
checking for install-info... install-info
checking for installation chapter... yes
checking for japanese manual... no
checking prefix ... /usr/local
checking datadir... ${prefix}/share
checking lispdir... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
checking infodir... ${prefix_default}/info
checking for ftp-upload... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/Makefile
config.status: creating lisp/Makefile
config.status: creating lisp/trampver.el
config.status: creating texi/Makefile
config.status: creating texi/trampver.texi
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile trampver.el
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/trampver.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp.el
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/shell.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/comint.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
While compiling toplevel forms in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp.el:
 ** reference to free variable unused-vars
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/dired.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
 ** defsubst tramp-make-tramp-temp-file was used before it was defined
While compiling tramp-touch in file /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp.el:
 ** assignment to free variable xxx
 ** reference to free variable xxx
While compiling the end of the data in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp.el:
 ** The function `copy-tree' might not be defined at runtime.
 ** The following functions are not known to be defined:
   byte-compiler-options, warnings, set-file-times, file-remote-p
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-cache.el
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-cache.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-smb.el
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/shell.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/comint.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Loading /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/fns-21.2.1.el (source)...
While compiling toplevel forms in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-smb.el:
 ** reference to free variable unused-vars
 ** reference to free variable tramp-smb-half-a-year
While compiling tramp-smb-read-file-entry in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-smb.el:
 ** reference to free variable tramp-smb-parse-time-months
While compiling the end of the data in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-smb.el:
 ** The following functions are not known to be defined:
   byte-compiler-options, warnings
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-smb.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-util.el
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/shell.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/comint.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Loading /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/fns-21.2.1.el (source)...
While compiling the end of the data in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-util.el:
 ** The following functions are not known to be defined: file-remote-p,
   gud-file-name
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-util.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-uu.el
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-uu.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-vc.el
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/shell.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/comint.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Loading /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/fns-21.2.1.el (source)...
While compiling toplevel forms in file 
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-vc.el:
 ** reference to free variable unused-vars
 ** The following functions are not known to be defined:
   byte-compiler-options, warnings
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-vc.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile tramp-ftp.el
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/shell.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Source file `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/comint.el' newer than byte-compiled 
file
Loading /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/fns-21.2.1.el (source)...
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/tramp-ftp.elc
Done
/bin/emacs --no-site-file -batch --eval "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" -f 
batch-byte-compile password.el
Wrote /home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp/password.elc
Done
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/lisp'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
mkdir ../info
makeinfo --no-split --footnote-style=end -D emacs -D  nojamanual \
        -D  installchapter -o ../info/tramp tramp.texi
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi//trampinst.texi:86: Misplaced {.
/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi//trampinst.texi:86: Misplaced }.
makeinfo: Removing output file `../info/tramp' due to errors; use --force to 
preserve.
make[1]: *** [../info/tramp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/.emacs.d/tramp/texi'
make: *** [all] Error 2
address@hidden ~/.emacs.d/tramp]$
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