Re: Can't visit directory using TRAMP

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Alan Hadsell <ahadsell@mtdiablo.com> writes:

> I attempt to visit a remote directory using TRAMP with the "plink"
> method and dired, and get a (repeatable) error.  The target system is
> GNU/Linux, CentOS 4.4 (equivalent to RHEL4).  The version of PuTTY I'm
> using is 0.60.  This same installation of emacs and PuTTY can
> successfully visit a remote directory on a Red Hat 7.3 system.
> Both systems have:
>
>   alias ls='ls --color=tty'
>
> With debug-on-error set, I receive the following backtrace:
>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Format specifier doesn't match argument type")
> |   format(" %-8d" "al")
> |   ls-lisp-format("." (t 9 al users (18053 34063) (16508 26097) (18053 16924) 4096 "drwxr-xr-x" nil 3855200 (-1 0)) 4096 (97 108) nil (18053 37612 574000))
> |   ls-lisp-insert-directory("/plink:al@fibonacci.pacengr.com:/home/al/build/scarab-1.0-b19/" (97 108) nil nil t)

You've said in the other message that you are running Tramp 2.1.5. In
the Changelog of Tramp, there is a correction in
tramp-handle-insert-directory wrt to ls-lisp. I don't remember the
details, but it might be worth to upgrade to Tramp 2.1.9, which
contains this fix.

> Alan Hadsell

Best regards, Michael.