bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

[Bill Pemberton]

Shadowfile is always failing because it is somehow always trying to
to run ssh scp -l wfp5p  -q -e none, which is wrong since there is no
hostname given.  I get the same error if I start emacs with -q, so it
doesn't appear to be anything in my startup files. 



In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-08-26 on xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603901
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector 
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> M-x s h a <tab> i n 
i <tab> <return> M-x s h a <tab> d e i n <backspace> 
<backspace> f i n <tab> l <tab> <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
-report>

Recent messages:
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `lc4.itc.virginia.edu'
Wrote /tmp/tramp.21217DdQ.priorities
and.priorities has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
(New file)
Tramp: Opening connection for wfp5p@scp using scp...
Tramp: Waiting 60s for local shell to come up...
Tramp: Sending command `ssh scp -l wfp5p  -q -e none && exit || exit'
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
File error: Process died
tramp-error: Process died

bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

[Chong Yidong]

> Shadowfile is always failing because it is somehow always trying to
> to run ssh scp -l wfp5p  -q -e none, which is wrong since there is no
> hostname given.  I get the same error if I start emacs with -q, so it
> doesn't appear to be anything in my startup files. 

Please, start at the beginning.  Can you give us a step-by-step recipe
for reproducing this bug, starting from emacs -q?

bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

>> Shadowfile is always failing because it is somehow always trying to
>> to run ssh scp -l wfp5p  -q -e none, which is wrong since there is no
>> hostname given.  I get the same error if I start emacs with -q, so it
>> doesn't appear to be anything in my startup files. 
>
> Please, start at the beginning.  Can you give us a step-by-step recipe
> for reproducing this bug, starting from emacs -q?

More information was requested more than a year ago, but was apparently
not given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug still exists,
please reopen the report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

[Glenn Morris]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> More information was requested more than a year ago, but was apparently
> not given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug still exists,
> please reopen the report.

I seem to recall understanding this at the time, which is why I removed
the moreinfo tag. So I will reopen this. (I _think_ it was that
shadowfile.el does not understand tramp; see #4846 with which I merged
it.)

bug#4526: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

[Michael Albinus]

Version:26.1

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi,

> It took several years, but now I have done it. Shadowfile.el has been
> rewritten to use Tramp file names.
>
> If you are using the latest Emacs 26.1, and you want to test this, you
> could download the changed shadowfile.el from
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/lisp/shadowfile.el?h=emacs-26>.
> Otherwise, it will appear with the next Emacs release.

No response, I'm closing the bugs. Feel free to report if you encounter
further problems with shadowfile.el.

Best regards, Michael.