Re: Tramp and BusyBox problem?

["Mats Löfdahl" <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se>]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Mats Löfdahl <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se> writes:
> 
>> I then started a fresh emacs and did the double attempt to connect as
>> root. To me it looked just like last time but I've uploaded the debug
>> buffer anyway: http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/~mats/debug3.txt
> 
> Things progress. Still an error, but at another place.
> 
> Tramp has two problems with your Busybox: it echoes the commands, and it
> is slow. This case, when Tramp has send "PS1='$ '", only the "PS1='$"
> substring was visible in the output buffer, and Tramp thought it is a
> shell prompt. Then it has sent the next command, and it began to be
> confused by the not read characters.

I guess this is consistent with my varying success with the bash test. 
If it's dependent on timing, the NAS could have been doing different 
things during the two tests, one that worked and one that failed.

> So we must convince Tramp there isn't a shell prompt, even if the
> command itself is echoed, and even if only a substring of the whole
> command is visible.
> 
> The appended patch tries to catch this situation. Could you, please,
> test?

Tested as before. Yes, this improves things. I now get to the dired 
buffer! This dired buffer looks badly formatted in the way described 
before, when I managed to connect with another user running bash.

A debug buffer was still created, it is available as 
http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/~mats/debug4.txt

An error was echoed. I guess the info is in the debug buffer but here it 
is from the *Messages* buffer as well:

----begin----
...
Loading tramp...done
Loading easymenu...done
Loading tramp...done
Loading time-date...done
Tramp: Opening connection for root@10.0.0.3 using scp...
Loading outline...
Loading easy-mmode...done
Loading outline...done
Tramp: Waiting 60s for local shell to come up...
Tramp: Sending command `ssh 10.0.0.3 -l root  -q -e none && exit || exit'
Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
Tramp: Sending password
Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on `10.0.0.3'
File error: `getconf PATH' returns with error
Tramp: `getconf PATH' not successful, using default value "/bin:/usr/bin".
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list...
Wrote /home/mats/debug4.txt
byte-code: Beginning of buffer
----end----


Back to the badly formatted dired buffer: In addition to it looking 
funny, completion to existing file names does not work. Neither does 
clicking on the file names. It fails to open the file and an error is 
echoed: "dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to 
update dired buffer"

Thanks for spending time on this!

/Mats