bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[pillule]

Hello,

When I use tramp and dired to a remote machine, and for some reason,
dired must ask for a confirmation (overwrite, large file etc…), I
never see the demand and have no possibility to answer it.
The only trace of this is in the *message* buffer.

So, the task did not finish. An emacs buffer wait indefinitly an
answer. And nothing than the lack of result indicate to the user that
it is not working.




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bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[Michael Albinus]

pillule <pillule@riseup.net> writes:

> Hello,

Hi,

> When I use tramp and dired to a remote machine, and for some reason,
> dired must ask for a confirmation (overwrite, large file etc…), I
> never see the demand and have no possibility to answer it.
> The only trace of this is in the *message* buffer.
>
> So, the task did not finish. An emacs buffer wait indefinitly an
> answer. And nothing than the lack of result indicate to the user that
> it is not working.

I've tried to reproduce it with Emacs 26.3. I started in a shell with

# touch /tmp/x /tmp/y

Afterwards, I called "emacs -Q /ssh::/tmp". Moved the cursor in dired to
file x, pressed key "C", confirmed file "/ssh:hostname:/tmp/y" to be
overwritten. The echo area shows

Overwrite ‘/ssh:hostname:/tmp/y’? [Type yn!q or C-h] 

as expected. Could you pls try the same scenario? Important is to start
"emacs -Q".

Best regards, Michael.

bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[pillule]

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On Mon, May 04 2020, Michael Albinus wrote:

>> Hello,
>
> Hi,
>
>> When I use tramp and dired to a remote machine, and for some reason,
>> dired must ask for a confirmation (overwrite, large file etc…), I
>> never see the demand and have no possibility to answer it.
>> The only trace of this is in the *message* buffer.
>>
>> So, the task did not finish. An emacs buffer wait indefinitly an
>> answer. And nothing than the lack of result indicate to the user that
>> it is not working.
>
> I've tried to reproduce it with Emacs 26.3. I started in a shell with
>
> # touch /tmp/x /tmp/y
>
> Afterwards, I called "emacs -Q /ssh::/tmp". Moved the cursor in dired to
> file x, pressed key "C", confirmed file "/ssh:hostname:/tmp/y" to be
> overwritten. The echo area shows
>
> Overwrite ‘/ssh:hostname:/tmp/y’? [Type yn!q or C-h]
>
> as expected. Could you pls try the same scenario? Important is to start
> "emacs -Q".

Yes. It result with an error message :
"ssh : cannot connect to host hostname port 22 : connexion refused"
This is a normal behavior since I have installed a ssh server only on
my remote machine and not my local one.


I am sorry to say that my report seems not enought to help my
self to remember exactly and reproduce the situation again.

I hope you forgive me about that and promise to be more rigorous an
hypothetic next time.

Have a nice day.

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bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[Michael Albinus]

pillule <pillule@riseup.net> writes:

Hi,

> Yes. It result with an error message :
> “ssh : cannot connect to host hostname port 22 : connexion refused”
> This is a normal behavior since I have installed a ssh server only on
> my remote machine and not my local one.

You should use "/ssh:USER@HOSTNAME:", with USER and HOSTNAME being your
remote user and host.

> Have a nice day.

Best regards, Michael.

bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[Stefan Kangas]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>> “ssh : cannot connect to host hostname port 22 : connexion refused”
>> This is a normal behavior since I have installed a ssh server only on
>> my remote machine and not my local one.
>
> You should use "/ssh:USER@HOSTNAME:", with USER and HOSTNAME being your
> remote user and host.

That was in May, and I see no updates since.  From reading the thread,
it seems like this was a configuration error or otherwise an error in
how Tramp was used?

Should this therefore be closed?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#41008: 26.1; tramp/dired confirmation trapped

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>>> “ssh : cannot connect to host hostname port 22 : connexion refused”
>>> This is a normal behavior since I have installed a ssh server only on
>>> my remote machine and not my local one.
>>
>> You should use "/ssh:USER@HOSTNAME:", with USER and HOSTNAME being your
>> remote user and host.
>
> That was in May, and I see no updates since.  From reading the thread,
> it seems like this was a configuration error or otherwise an error in
> how Tramp was used?
>
> Should this therefore be closed?

Yes. I do it herewith. In case there are further problems, a reply to
this message would be sufficient.

> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas

Best regards, Michael.