tramp cannot connect

["Sam Steingold" <ssteingold@janestcapital.com>]

GNU Emacs 23.0.50.19 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-10-15 on nyc-qws-005
 '-with-gtk' '-with-gif=no'

it appears that `command' in tramp-maybe-open-connection is set to
something weird:

"ssh - t - t www.podval.org -l sds  -e none && exit || exit"

the "- t - t" should be "-t -t"

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Process died")
  signal(file-error ("Process died"))
  tramp-error(["ssh" "sds" "www.podval.org" "~/.newsrc"] file-error "Process died")
  apply(tramp-error ["ssh" "sds" "www.podval.org" "~/.newsrc"] file-error "Process died" nil)
  byte-code("ÄŽÅÆ\b	\n\v%)‡" [vec-or-proc signal fmt-string args ((byte-code "\bƒ-\0Ä	!„-\0Å\x1aÆÇ\v!ƒ\x17\0\v†&\0È\b!ƒ#\0É\b!†&\0Ê\b!!ˆËÌ!ˆ)ć" [vec-or-proc tramp-verbose enable-recursive-minibuffers buffer zerop t pop-to-buffer bufferp processp process-buffer tramp-get-buffer sit-for 30] 3)) apply tramp-error] 6)
  tramp-process-actions(#<process *tramp/ssh sds@www.podval.org*> ["ssh" "sds" "www.podval.org" "~/.newsrc"] ((tramp-login-prompt-regexp tramp-action-login) (tramp-password-prompt-regexp tramp-action-password) (tramp-wrong-passwd-regexp tramp-action-permission-denied) (shell-prompt-pattern tramp-action-succeed) (tramp-shell-prompt-pattern tramp-action-succeed) (tramp-yesno-prompt-regexp tramp-action-yesno) (tramp-yn-prompt-regexp tramp-action-yn) (tramp-terminal-prompt-regexp tramp-action-terminal) (tramp-process-alive-regexp tramp-action-process-alive)) 60)
  tramp-maybe-open-connection(["ssh" "sds" "www.podval.org" "~/.newsrc"])
  tramp-send-command(["ssh" "sds" "www.podval.org" "~/.newsrc"] "cd ~; pwd")
  tramp-handle-expand-file-name("/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc" nil)
  apply(tramp-handle-expand-file-name ("/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc" nil))
  tramp-sh-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc" nil)
  apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler expand-file-name ("/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc" nil))
  tramp-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc" nil)
  file-symlink-p("/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc")
  file-chase-links("/ssh:sds@www.podval.org:~/.newsrc")

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