Re: tramp (2.7.0-pre nil/nil); Can't connect to server anymore

[Michael Albinus]

"Kirill A. Korinsky" <kirill@korins.ky> writes:

> Greetings,

Hi Kirill,

> When I run emacs your way I have:
>
> In *Messages*
>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>> Tramp: Opening connection nil for playground.island.local using ssh...failed
>> signal: Wrong type argument: "listp /bin/sh:"
>
> and I've attached tramp.log

Thanks a lot, this has helped. In the debug buffer we see what happens:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
22:48:20.976768 tramp-send-command (6) # tramp_bundle_read_file_names 
<<'36584af1a5124300cf63739980e7d186'
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/X11R6/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/local/bin
/local/freeware/bin
/local/gnu/bin
/usr/freeware/bin
/usr/pkg/bin
/usr/contrib/bin
/opt/bin
/opt/sbin
/opt/local/bin
36584af1a5124300cf63739980e7d186
22:48:21.035464 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) #
/bin/sh: can't create temporary file /tmp/shZPInbtKR: Permission denied
///8056ae9d33677d9550fbd457130ab698#$
22:48:21.049964 tramp-bundle-read-file-names (10) #
  backtrace()
  tramp-signal-hook-function(wrong-type-argument (listp /bin/sh:))
  tramp-bundle-read-file-names((tramp-file-name "ssh" nil nil 
"playground.island.local" nil "" nil) ("/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/sbin" 
"/usr/X11R6/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/local/sbin" "/local/bin" 
"/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin" "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin" 
"/usr/contrib/bin" "/opt/bin" "/opt/sbin" "/opt/local/bin"))
  ...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The error "/bin/sh: can't create temporary file /tmp/shZPInbtKR:
Permission denied" isn't propagated properly by Tramp. Could you,
please, try the appended patch? There shall be a better error message.

> wbr, Kirill

Best regards, Michael.

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