Re: tramp (2.0.39); Trapping in ange-ftp.

[David Kastrup]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Hello Dvid,
> 
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)
> >   gethash("auctex" nil unknown)
> >   ange-ftp-hash-entry-exists-p("auctex" nil)
> >   ange-ftp-file-attributes("/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
> 
> I've tried to reproduce the problem, unfortunately without success. It
> doesn't look like a Tramp problem; Tramp simply passes all FTP actions
> to ange-ftp.
> 
> If I evaluate (file-attributes
> "/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)
  gethash("auctex" nil unknown)
  ange-ftp-hash-entry-exists-p("auctex" nil)
  ange-ftp-file-attributes("/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  apply(ange-ftp-file-attributes "/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  ange-ftp-hook-function(file-attributes "/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  apply(ange-ftp-hook-function file-attributes 
"/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  tramp-ftp-file-name-handler(file-attributes 
"/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  apply(tramp-ftp-file-name-handler file-attributes 
"/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  tramp-file-name-handler(file-attributes "/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  file-attributes("/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex")
  eval((file-attributes "/address@hidden:/pub/support/auctex"))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

> I don't reach the call of `ange-ftp-hash-entry-exists-p', because
> ange-ftp detects before that the directory "support" doesn't exist. So
> I wonder how you've reached it.
> 
> Could you, please, check whether you run the ange-ftp from Emacs
> CVS?

Sure do, and quite a recent Emacs, too (from yesterday or so).
> 
> And could you, please, evaluate (file-attributes "/address@hidden:/pub")

Loading tramp...done
Opening FTP connection to ftp.dante.de...done
Logging in as user address@hidden
Listing /address@hidden:/...done
(t -1 -1 -1 (0 0) (0 0) (0 0) -1 "d?????????" nil 1 -1)

> This works for me without problems.

Here too.  But I evaluated this file-attributes call first, before I
tried again the one above without success.  Don't know whether the
order is important, but thought I should mention it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum