"Yang Zhang" <fz15@cse.msstate.edu> writes:

> Hello Michael,

Hi,

> Thank you for your attention and help. The pre-installed tramp
> 2.1.13-pre with my emacs 23.0.60.1 is also having the symbolic
> problem. Here I attached the tramp debug buffer output. The other
> buffer "tramp /scp host*" is empty.

Thanks for the traces, they have been helpful. Please try the appended
patch (towards 2.1.14-pre), it shall fix the problem.

> Thank you very much,
>
> --Yang

Best regards, Michael.