Re: tramp not loading (?)

[ken]

Starting over.  I removed (by hand) the tramp2 installed earlier and
installed (from tramp.el):

;; Version: $Id: tramp.el,v 2.95 2002/04/10 17:16:25 kaig Exp $

Untarred under my home, then copied them to the traditional place for a
system-wide install:

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp # ll
total 264
drwxr-x---  2 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:43 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:42 ..
-rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   1953 Mar  3  2002 tramp-util.el
-rw-r-----  1 6104 6100  19658 Dec 29  2001 tramp-vc.el
-rw-r-----  1 6104 6100 225748 Apr 10  2002 tramp.el
-rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   3480 Feb 28  2001 trampcache.el

Put this into my ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp/")
(require 'tramp)        ;errors out

Put the point after the closing paren of each line and did "C-x C-e"

The first properly displayed the load-path in the echo area, but the
second yeilded this pile of confusion:

<snip>
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
"tramp")  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("Æ!ˆÇ ˆÈ   !ˆ\nƒ?
Éed\"Vƒ4ebˆÊ¥yˆ`dbˆÊ¥Zyˆ\f`|ˆ)ËcˆebˆÌÍ !ˆÎ ˆ       @Ï=ƒKÐÑÒ\"ˆÓ ˆÌÔ
!ˆÒÕÒÌÔ!ˆŠÖ ˆ,Շ" [debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive
debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer
debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message
buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable ""
nil recursive-edit standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)  debug(error
(file-error "Cannot open load file" "tramp"))  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("Æ!ˆÇ ˆÈ   !ˆ\nƒ?
Éed\"Vƒ4ebˆÊ¥yˆ`dbˆÊ¥Zyˆ\f`|ˆ)ËcˆebˆÌÍ !ˆÎ ˆ       @Ï=ƒKÐÑÒ\"ˆÓ ˆÌÔ
!ˆÒÕÒÌÔ!ˆŠÖ ˆ,Շ" [debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive
debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer
debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message
buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable ""
nil recursive-edit standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)  debug(error
(file-error "Cannot open load file" "tramp"))  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("Æ!ˆÇ ˆÈ   !ˆ\nƒ?
Éed\"Vƒ4ebˆÊ¥yˆ`dbˆÊ¥Zyˆ\f`|ˆ)ËcˆebˆÌÍ !ˆÎ ˆ       @Ï=ƒKÐÑÒ\"ˆÓ ˆÌÔ
!ˆÒÕÒÌÔ!ˆŠÖ ˆ,Շ" [debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive
debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer
debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message
buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable ""
nil recursive-edit standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)  debug(error
(file-error "Cannot open load file" "tramp"))  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("Æ!ˆÇ ˆÈ   !ˆ\nƒ?-Éed\"Vƒ4ebˆÊ¥yˆ`dbˆÊ¥Zyˆ\f`|ˆ)Ëcˆebˆ
ÌÍ !ˆÎ ˆ        @Ï=ƒÐÑÒ\"ˆÓ ˆÌÔ!ˆÒÕÒÌÔ!ˆŠÖ ˆ,Շ" [debugger-buffer
debugger-args noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart
buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer
count-lines 2 "...\n" message buffer-string kill-emacs debug
backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil recursive-edit
standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)  debug(error (file-error "Cannot open
load file" "tramp"))  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("Æ!ˆÇ ˆÈ   !ˆ\nƒ?K-Éed\"Vƒ4ebˆÊ¥yˆ`dbˆÊ¥Zyˆ\f`|ˆ)Ëcˆ
ebˆÌÍ !ˆÎ ˆ     @Ï=ƒÐÑÒ\"ˆÓ ˆÌÔ!ˆÒÕÒÌÔ!ˆŠÖ ˆ,Շ" [debugger-buffer
debugger-args noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart
buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer
count-lines 2 "...\n" message buffer-string kill-emacs debug
backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil recursive-edit
standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)  debug(error (file-error "Cannot open
load file" "tramp"))  require(tramp)
  eval((require (quote tramp)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

</snip>

Just to make sure the above *Backtrace* wasn't lying to me, I tried "C-x
C-f" and used the format /user@host.domain.tld:.emacs and, as expected,
emacs tried to use ange-ftp.

The version of emacs I'm using, if it matters, is 21.3.1.

Anyone know what's going on here?


tia,
ken