From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Can't visit directory using TRAMP Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:34:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87tzspyh5y.fsf@gmx.de> References: <46859E0C.8020507@mtdiablo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183194748 26746 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2007 09:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alan Hadsell Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 11:12:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4Z09-0007wk-N4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Z08-0005sX-UY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4YOS-0004xL-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4YOR-0004x7-31 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4YOQ-0004x4-Sa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4YOQ-0004Bl-Bb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2007 08:33:20 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A22263.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO arthur.local) [87.162.34.99] by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 30 Jun 2007 10:33:20 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+HM1lXb/mHY+X4U5MqA8i2NMTlkX2zXgC1RLMK84 Ki9fqDEtcJLaSe In-Reply-To: <46859E0C.8020507@mtdiablo.com> (Alan Hadsell's message of "Fri\, 29 Jun 2007 20\:04\:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:12:18 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16032 Archived-At: Alan Hadsell 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.