The setup is the same as bug#55166: /ssh:dan@solstice:/tmp/ #$ touch a b c /ssh:dan@solstice:/tmp/ #$ tar cf test.tar a b c /ssh:dan@solstice:/tmp/ #$ xz test.tar but in this case write-file throws an error instead of failing silently: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument "listp (tramp-file-name-handler tramp-crypt-file-name-handler . inhibit-file-name-handlers)") signal(wrong-type-argument ("listp (tramp-file-name-handler tramp-crypt-file-name-handler . inhibit-file-name-handlers)")) basic-save-buffer-2() basic-save-buffer-1() basic-save-buffer(nil) save-buffer() write-file("/ssh:dan@solstice:/tmp/test2.tar.xz" t) funcall-interactively(write-file "/ssh:dan@solstice:/tmp/test2.tar.xz" t) call-interactively(write-file nil nil) command-execute(write-file) In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.31, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-07-31 built on october.example.org Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12014000 System Description: Slackware 15.0 x86_64 Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Debugger Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils sh-script smie treesit executable calculator vc-src vc-sccs vc-svn vc-cvs vc-rcs log-view pcvs-util vc bug-reference cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs cl-extra shortdoc text-property-search thingatpt help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace help-mode find-func vc-hg vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode vc-bzr vc-dispatcher tar-mode arc-mode archive-mode jka-compr tramp-cmds tramp-cache time-stamp tramp-sh tramp tramp-loaddefs trampver tramp-integration files-x tramp-compat rx shell pcomplete comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring parse-time iso8601 time-date format-spec auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs cl-loaddefs cl-lib password-cache json subr-x map byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 134931 10283) (symbols 48 13252 0) (strings 32 47223 1850) (string-bytes 1 1527085) (vectors 16 25505) (vector-slots 8 335082 9416) (floats 8 123 55) (intervals 56 717 0) (buffers 976 23))