From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4137: 23.1.50; vc-dir waits instead of error message Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:17:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h84s7gnq.fsf@gnus.org> <87d03lma9a.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33983"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 4137@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 05:19:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krvcE-0008kN-3n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59934 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvcD-0007HY-4C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvc6-0007HH-Iv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvc6-0000iR-Au for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1krvc6-0003qK-6m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:19:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:19:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 4137 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 4137-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B4137.160869708314637 (code B ref 4137); Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:19:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4137) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Dec 2020 04:18:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51467 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1krvb8-0003o0-Sz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54552) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1krvb6-0003nJ-FC for 4137@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvb1-0000BM-7B; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:17:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krvb0-000231-Aj; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:17:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d03lma9a.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:40:17 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:196600 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> I tried doing vc-dir without having entered my passphrase to enable > >> subjobs of Emacs to contact savannah. So CVS would have failed. > >> But vc-dir gave no sign of this. It created the buffer in the initial > >> state, and never said or did anything more. > > I'm not sure I understand this bug report. Was Emacs supposed to prompt > > for a password here? (I think I've repressed how CVS worked with > > remote, password-protected repositories...) I am sorry my scenario was not clear. Normally, VC commands fail when I have not previously specified my ssh passphrase so CVS can contact savannah. Emacs does not know how to promptfor the passphrase on their behalf. So normally I specify the passphrase in advance with ssh-add. That time I forgot to run ssh-add, so the basic vc commands should have failed. But vc-dir didn't report a failure. Instead it created the buffer with no failure report, and then the buffer was nonresponsive to commands. The bug is that vc-dir did not fail when it should have failed. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)