Re: tramp (2.0.49); "garbage" characters inserted

[Michael Albinus]

Sebastian Luque <address@hidden> writes:

> "Garbage" characters get inserted automatically at a few lines whenever
> I'm working on some files as root. I access these files with
> '/su::/path/to/file/or/directory', and these characters appear after
> editing the files, or moving them from one directory to another. Any help
> is greatly appreciated.
>
> Sending this bug report through gnus Gnus v5.10.7, I was prompted to
> delete some characters in order to send the email.

Oops, I'll fix it (encoding the buffer to be sent).

[...]

> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian

[...]

> $ (uname -sr) 2>/dev/null
> Linux 2.6.10

This sounds like the n_tty driver bug in the Linux kernel 2.6.10
(fixed with 2.6.11). See discussion at
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/37967>

Do you see a chance to upgrade your Debian system?

Best regards, Michael.