Re: tramp (2.1.11-pre); upgrade to gutsy and cannot open files on one server

[Martin Flack]

Thanks very much for your help Michael.

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:08 +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Martin Flack <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This part still works - I am prompted for a password, it logs in, and
> > I get a dired. When I try to open a directory, it works, but when I
> > try to open a file, it either appears empty or I get this error:
> > Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> 
> Could you, please, (setq debug-on-error t) before starting Tramp? When
> the error occurs, I'ld like to see the resulting backtrace.

I'm attaching a backtrace. Let me know if that's all you need.

> However, there is also something strange in the traces you've sent:
> 
> > 00:22:38 tramp-send-command (6) # test -d /home/martin/tmp/ 2>/dev/null; 
> > echo tramp_exit_status $? 
> > 00:22:38 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
> > tramp_exit_status 1
> 
> Tramp believes that /home/martin/tmp/ is your temp directory on the
> remote host. Tramp checks for this directory and finds out that it
> doesn't exists. But then ...
> 
> > 00:22:38 tramp-send-command (6) # cp -f /home/mflack/vc/work/stable2repo 
> > /home/martin/tmp/tramp.7153K4U
> > 00:22:38 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
> > cp: cannot create regular file `/home/martin/tmp/tramp.7153K4U': No such 
> > file or directory
> 
> ... Tramp seems to ignore this knowledge.

Locally, my temporary folder is /home/martin/tmp. On the server I'm
having problems with, it's /tmp (or more likely not set).

I unset $TMP, $TEMP, and $TMPDIR locally and tried again - this time it
seems to do the copy ok, but stops on chown. The problem is that 1000 is
my UID locally, but it's 503 remotely, so 1000 fails as one would
expect. 

00:49:13 tramp-send-command (6) # chown 1000:1000 /tmp/tramp.11158IHX.pm
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # chunksize 0
00:49:13 tramp-set-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (18209 29129
128154)
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-buffer nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
00:49:13 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
chown: changing ownership of `/tmp/tramp.11158IHX.pm': Operation not
permitted

Cheers,
Martin

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