From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#72450: 29.1; Tramp Failed to Parse OS Name and Version for Windows 11 Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:41:32 +0300 Message-ID: <86y15cucg3.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27577"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 72450@debbugs.gnu.org To: Duncan Greatwood , Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 04 06:45:15 2024 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 1saT7J-00070B-L5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1saT70-0004zB-AH; 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Tramp was producing an error "Couldn't find remote shell prompt for /bin/sh". > > To address, now I detect the tramp attach on the Windows side and, in the Tramp case, move to shell "sh" for > the Windows prompt. > > Thereafter, tramp produces the "uname/lisp" error above. > > FYI, from the windows side: > sh-5.2$ uname -sr > MSYS_NT-10.0-22631 3.4.10-87d57229.x86_64 My suggestion is not to have the MSYS 'uname' on your Path. I think it gets in the way, and Tramp doesn't really need it on Windows. Michael, am I right? In general, too many Windows users of Emacs install MSYS in a way that its utilities are on the system-wide Path, without understanding the caveats and subtle issues this could cause.