Problems with tramp-adb

[Holger Wenzel]

Hi,

I've started using tramp-adb to access files on my rooted HTC Sapphire, running Android 2.3.5.

adb is version 1.0.26, tramp 2.2.2, emacs 23-3 and tramp-adb.el the version from June 10th from github.

I followed the instructions in the Readme and top of tramp-adb.el to hook it into tramp.

In my first attempt, emacs hung after I tried

(find-file "/adb::/")

  

Looking at the prompt from my adb-shell 

address@hidden ~ $ adb shell                                                      

~ #                            

and comparing this with the regexp for this in tramp-adb.el

 "^[#\\$][[:space:]]+" 

it appeared it didn't match.

Changing this into  

 (defconst tramp-adb-prompt "^~[[:space:]]+[#\\$][[:space:]]+"

  "Regexp used as prompt in ADB shell.")

to reflect the tilde at the beginning of the prompt got me one step further.

(dired "/adb::/") 

gives me a buffer called /adb::/<2> with the content of the root of my Android file system.

 /adb::/:

  drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 .

  drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 ..

  drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 /.

  drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 /..

  drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 acct

  drwxrwx--x    1 system   cache         2048 Sep  6 13:26 cache

  dr-x------    2 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 config

  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Sep  5 14:42 d -> /sys/kernel/debug

  drwxrwx--x    1 system   system        2048 Jul 15 16:54 data

  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           118 Jan  1  1970 default.prop

  drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root          1220 Sep  5 14:42 dev

  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            11 Sep  5 14:42 etc -> /system/etc

  -rwxr-x---    1 root     root         98336 Jan  1  1970 init

  -rwxr-x---    1 root     root          1677 Jan  1  1970 init.goldfish.rc

  -rwxr-x---    1 root     root         14845 Jan  1  1970 init.rc

  -rwxr-x---    1 root     root          3029 Jan  1  1970 init.sapphire.rc

  -rwxr-x---    1 root     root          3029 Jan  1  1970 init.trout.rc

  drwxrwxr-x    6 root     system           0 Sep  5 14:42 mnt

  dr-xr-xr-x   97 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 proc

  drwx------    2 root     root             0 Aug 21 00:15 root

  drwxr-x---    2 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 sbin

  drwxrwx--x    7 system   system        1024 Aug 29 07:52 sd-ext

  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            11 Sep  5 14:42 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard

  drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 sys

  drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          2048 Aug 28 21:04 system

  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            25 Jan  1  1970 ueventd.ds.rc

  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 ueventd.goldfish.rc

  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          3882 Jan  1  1970 ueventd.rc

  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            14 Sep  5 14:42 vendor -> /system/vendor

A buffer called *tramp/adb nil* is also created that has the following content

                drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root             0 Sep  5 14:42 /

When I try to open one of the files in dired, I get 

          dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer

When I try to open another but the root directory, I get:

File /adb::/ is read-only on disk.  Change buffer mode? (y or n)