Re: Couldn't find exit status opening directory by plink

[Michael Albinus]

address@hidden writes:

> Starting Emacs and issuing this command:
> /plink:address@hidden:/home/me/
> I get one error the first time, and the one I posted the second time.

According to the debug buffer you've sent, there are problems indeed:

17:15:09 tramp-send-command-internal (6) # stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U' erase 
'^H'
17:15:09 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
stty: standard input: Invalid argument
address@hidden ~ $ 

That's strange. Later on, your remote system is identified as "Linux
2.6.18-gentoo-r3-G3G4". It should accept the stty as it is.

Could you call the stty command directly in a shell on that host?
Could you check stty's man page what's wrong with this command?

17:15:40 tramp-send-command (6) # \stat -c '(("%N") %h %u %g %X.0 %Y.0 %Z.0 %s 
"%A" t %i -1)' /home 2>/dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $? 
17:15:40 tramp-wait-for-regexp (6) # 
(("`/home'") 8 0 0 -421032914.0 1173248849.0 1173248849.0 4096 "drwxr-xr-x" t 2 
-1)

///e7aea0b72c6a0f27266cd78fb6280ba9
tramp_exit_status 0
17:15:40 tramp-send-command-and-check (1) # File error: Couldn't find exit 
status of `\stat -c '(("%N") %h %u %g %X.0 %Y.0 %Z.0 %s "%A" t %i -1)' /home'

Here we see that the prompt did appear before the result of the stat
command. Therefore, Tramp could not check the return code, and it did
fail.

I've never seen this. Previous commands in the trace did show the
right order of exit status and prompt. Maybe we can cure it with a
proper stty command.

Best regards, Michael.